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Resilient Cyborgs - Living and Dying with Pacemakers and Defibrillators (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020) Loot Price: R2,658
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Resilient Cyborgs - Living and Dying with Pacemakers and Defibrillators (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Nelly Oudshoorn

Resilient Cyborgs - Living and Dying with Pacemakers and Defibrillators (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)

Nelly Oudshoorn

Series: Health, Technology and Society

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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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Imprint: Springer Verlag, Singapore
Country of origin: Singapore
Series: Health, Technology and Society
Release date: April 2020
First published: 2020
Authors: Nelly Oudshoorn
Dimensions: 210 x 148 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 350
Edition: 1st ed. 2020
ISBN-13: 978-981-15-2528-5
Categories: Books > Medicine > General issues > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General
Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Human biology & related topics > Medical anthropology
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LSN: 981-15-2528-5
Barcode: 9789811525285

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