Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity

List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Chapter 1 Introduction 1 Interlude 1 Thinking about Reading 19 Chapter 2 Metaphors, Histories, and Visions of PET 22 Interlude 2 Reading Function 50 Chapter 3 Producing Brain Images of Mind 53 Interlude 3 Who Can Read Other Minds? 106 Chapter 4 Ways of Seeing Brains as Expert Images 109 Interlude 4 Reading into Images 134 Chapter 5 Traveling Images, Popularizing Brains 139 Interlude 5 Living One's Images 170 Chapter 6 Conclusion: Here Is a PET Image of a Person that Shows Depression 172 Notes 187 Bibliography 209 Index of Names 235 General Index 242