Imaging the brain: visualising “pathological entities”? Searching for reliable protocols within psychiatry and their impact on the understanding of psychiatric diseases

Poiesis & Praxis - Tập 6 - Trang 27-41 - 2008
Lara Huber1
1Institut für Geschichte, Theorie und Ethik der Medizin, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Mainz, Germany

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Given that visualisations via medical imaging have tremendously increased over the last decades, the overall presence of colour-coded brain slices generated on the basis of functional imaging, i.e. neuroimaging techniques, have led to the assumption of so-called “kinds” of brains or cognitive profiles that might be especially related to “non-healthy” humans affected by neurological, neuropsychological or psychiatric syndromes or disorders. In clinical contexts especially, one must consider that visualisations through medical imaging are suggestive in a twofold way. Imaging data not only visually render pathological entities, but also tend to represent objective and concrete evidence for these psychophysical states in question. This article aims to identify key issues in visually rendering psychiatric disorders via functional approaches of imaging within the neurosciences from an epistemological point of view.

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