Reconfiguring the Parkinson's Personality in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

被引:1
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作者
Porter, Dorothy [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Calif San Francisco, Dept Anthropol Hist & Social Med, San Francisco, CA 94143 USA
来源
CANADIAN BULLETIN OF MEDICAL HISTORY | 2016年 / 33卷 / 02期
关键词
Parkinson's Disease; personality and the brain; bio-psychological personality model; dopamine; creativity; emergence;
D O I
10.3138/cbmh.33.2.149-27012015
中图分类号
N09 [自然科学史]; B [哲学、宗教];
学科分类号
01 ; 0101 ; 010108 ; 060207 ; 060305 ; 0712 ;
摘要
This article explores the historical construction of a bio-psychological model of a pre-diagnostic Parkinson's Disease Personality. The essay interrogates the historically situated value-laden assumptions about character traits thought to be correlated with neuro-molecular variations measured in the brain. The epistemological security of the bio-psychological model is examined in the light of patients' own interpretations of their cognitive experiences of creativity, and the meaning of their feeling "emergent'' as contrasted to the experience of a static human existence.
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页码:465 / 492
页数:28
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