Medical technics / Don Ihde.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ihde, Don, 1934-2024, author.

Series:

Forerunners (Minneapolis, Minn.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cyborgs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (95 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minnesota ; London : University of Minnesota Press, 2019.

Summary:

A personal account of the aging body and advanced technologies by a preeminent philosopher of technology Medical Technics is a rigorous examination of how medical progress has modified our worlds and contributed to a virtual revolution in longevity. Don Ihde offers a unique autobiographical tour of medical events experienced in a decade, beginning in his 70s. Ihde offers experiential and postphenomenological analyses of technologies such as sonography and microsurgery, and ultimately asks what it means to increasingly become a cyborg. Forerunners: Ideas First Short books of thought-in-process scholarship, where intense analysis, questioning, and speculation take the lead

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Introduction

Sonifying Science: Listening to Cancer

Aging: I Don't Want to Be a Cyborg, I and II

Aging Cyborg, III, IV, V, VI, and VII

From Embodiment Skills in Computer Games to Nintendo Surgery

Postphenomenological Postscript: From Macro-­ to Microtechnics

We Make Technology, Technology Makes Us

Additional Resources

Acknowledgments.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781452963075

145296307X