Reconfiguring the Parkinson's Personality in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries.
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.
Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, University of California at San Francisco.
Dorothy
D
Porter
D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D003405:Creativity; D006801:Humans; D010300:Parkinson Disease; D010551:Personality
Parkinson's Disease; bio-psychological personality model; creativity; créativité; dopamine; emergence; maladie de Parkinson; mesure de dopamine; modèle-bio-psychopathologique de la personnalité; personality and the brain; émergence