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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.
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Keywords
- Fine Arts
- functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
- Functional Neurological Disorder
- gender
- Gender Studies
- history of medicine
- Hysteria
- Media Studies
- Medical research
- medicine
- Medicine: General Issues
- neuroimaging
- Photography
- Photography & photographs
- Society & culture: general
- Society & Social Sciences
- The arts
- The arts: general issues
- Theory of Art
- visual studies
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DOI: 10.1515/9783839461761Editions