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Published on: July 24, 2019
Reconfiguring the Parkinson's Personality in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
1Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, University of California at San Francisco.
Abstract:
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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