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From photography to fMRI: epistemic functions of images in medical research on hysteria

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 19th-century image-based research into the same disorder. Paula Muhr's central argument is that, both in the 19th-century an…
Bielefeld, 2022
https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-6176-7/from-photography-to-fmri/?c=311000017