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Resilient Cyborgs
- Living and Dying with Pacemakers and Defibrillators
Engelsk Paperback
Resilient Cyborgs
- Living and Dying with Pacemakers and Defibrillators
Engelsk Paperback

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This book examines how pacemakers and defibrillators participate in transforming life and death in high-tech societies. In both popular and medical accounts, these internal devices are often portrayed as almost magical technologies. Once implanted in bodies, they do not require any ''user'' agency. In this unique and timely book, Nelly Oudshoorn argues that any discourse or policy assuming a passive role for people living with these implants silences the fact that keeping cyborg bodies alive involves their active engagement. Pacemakers and defibrillators not only act as potentially life-saving technologies, but simultaneously transform the fragility of bodies by introducing new vulnerabilities. Oudshoorn offers a fascinating examination of what it takes to become a resilient cyborg, and in the process develops a valuable new sociology of creating ''resilient'' cyborgs.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
350
ISBN-13:
9789811525315
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
9811525315
Udg. Dato:
3 apr 2021
Længde:
0mm
Bredde:
148mm
Højde:
210mm
Forlag:
Springer Verlag, Singapore
Oplagsdato:
3 apr 2021
Forfatter(e):
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