Prof. Regula Valerie Burri (HafenCity University Hamburg, DE)

Visualizing Bodies and Brains: A Social Science Perspective on Biomedical Imaging

March 22, 2018 | 5 pm

Drawing on ethnographic field research and interviews with physicians and scientists, this talk will show how biomedical images can be conceptualized and analyzed from a social science perspective. While the humanities look back on a long tradition of studying images and scopic regimes, the social sciences more recently developed an interest in images as social entities.

Starting out from a short discussion of such analytic approaches, the talk will suggest a perspective that allows to consider the visual „in action“. The talk will thus inquire into the very practices of the production, interpretation, and use of visualizations in medical and research contexts and ask how images serve epistemic and social aims.

Organiser:
Department of Basic Psychological Research and Research Methods (General Psychology)
Location:
Faculty of Psychology (Lecture hall G, 2nd floor, left wing)