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