{"product_id":"do-i-know-you-from-face-blindness-to-super-recognition-paperback","title":"Do I Know You?: From Face Blindness to Super Recognition - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSharrona Pearl\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA fascinating history of how we recognize faces--or fail to recognize them.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eDo I Know You? \u003c\/i\u003eSharrona Pearl explores the fascinating category of face recognition and the \"the face recognition spectrum,\" which ranges from face blindness at one end to super recognition at the other. Super recognizers can recall faces from only the briefest exposure, while face blind people lack the capacity to recognize faces at all, including those of their closest loved ones. Informed by archival research, the latest neurological studies, and testimonials from people at both ends of the spectrum, Pearl tells a nuanced story of how we relate to each other through our faces. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe category of face recognition is relatively new despite the importance of faces in how we build relationships and understand our own humanity. Pearl shows how this most tacit of knowledge came to enter the scientific and diagnostic field despite difficulties with identifying it. She offers a grounded framework for how we evaluate others and draw conclusions about them, with significant implications for race, gender, class, and disability. Pearl explores the shifting ideas around the face-recognition spectrum, explaining the effects of these diagnoses on real people alongside implications for how facial recognition is studied and understood. Face blindness is framed as a disability, while super recognition is framed as a superpower with no meaningful disadvantages. This superhero rhetoric is tied to the use of super recognizers in criminal detection, prosecution, and other forms of state surveillance. \u003ci\u003eDo I Know You?\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates a humanistic approach to the study of the brain, one that offers an entirely new method for examining this fundamental aspect of human interaction. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe combination of personal narratives, scientific and medical research, and high-profile advocates like Oliver Sacks helped to establish face recognition as a category and a spectrum in both diagnostic and experiential realms. Building on an interdisciplinary foundation that includes the history of medicine, science, and technology, disability studies, media and communication, artificial intelligence ethics, and the health humanities, Pearl challenges the binary nature of spectrum thinking in general and provides a fascinating case study in the treatment of this new scientific category.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSharrona Pearl \u003c\/b\u003e(PHILADELPHIA, PA) is an associate professor of medical ethics and history at Drexel University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eFace\/On: Face Transplants and the Ethics of the Other \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eAbout Faces: Physiognomy in Nineteenth-Century Britain\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 232\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.53 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 31, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51776810615072,"sku":"9781421447537","price":59.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/046b712d10a39c218e3dcd3fd6803464.webp?v=1780486545","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/do-i-know-you-from-face-blindness-to-super-recognition-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}