From Photography to fMRI: Epistemic Functions of Images in Medical Research on Hysteria
Paula Muhr
Sep 2022 · Image Book 209 · transcript Verlag
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Hysteria, a mysterious disease known since antiquity, is said to have ceased to exist. Challenging this commonly held view, this is the first cross-disciplinary study to examine the current functional neuroimaging research into hysteria and compare it to the nineteenth-century image-based research into the same disorder. Paula Muhr's central argument is that, both in the nineteenth-century and the current neurobiological research on hysteria, images have enabled researchers to generate new medical insights. Through detailed case studies, Muhr traces how different images, from photography to functional brain scans, have reshaped the historically situated medical understanding of this disorder that defies the mind-body dualism.
About the author
Paula Muhr (Prof. Dr.) ist Künstlerin und Bildwissenschaftlerin. Sie ist Professorin für Transdisciplinary Studies an der Brand University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg und Gastwissenschaftlerin an der Technischen Universität Berlin. Sie promovierte in Kunst- und Bildwissenschaft an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Mit einem transdisziplinären Ansatz untersucht sie die epistemische Funktion von Bildern in den Naturwissenschaften, von der Medizin bis zur Astrophysik.
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