Embodiment and everyday cyborgs : technologies that alter subjectivity / Gillian Haddow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haddow, Gillian, author.

Contributor:

Haddow, Gillian, contributor.

Series:

Inscriptions (Manchester University Press)

Inscriptions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cybernetics.

Implants, Artificial.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 192 pages) : illustrations.

Other Title:

Embodiment and everyday cyborgs

Place of Publication:

Manchester, England : Manchester University Press, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Your organs are failing and require replacement. If you had the choice, would you prefer organs from other humans or non-human animals, or would you choose a 'cybernetic' medical implant?Using a range of social science methods and drawing on the sociology of the body and embodiment, biomedicine and technology, this book asks what happens to who we are (our identity) when we change what we are (our bodies)? From surveying young adults about whether they would choose options such as 3-D bioprinting, living or deceased human donation, or non-human animal or implantable biomechanical devices, to interviewing those who live with an implantable cardiac defibrillator, Haddow invites us to think about what kind of relationship we have with our bodies. She concludes that the reliance on 'cybernetic' medical devices create 'everyday cyborgs' who can experience alienation and new forms of vulnerability at implantation and activation.Embodiment and everyday cyborgs invites readers to consider the relationship between personal identity and the body, between humans and non-human animals, and our increasing dependency on 'smart' implantable technology. The creation of new techno-organic hybrid bodies makes us acutely aware of our own bodies and how ambiguous the experience of embodiment actually is. It is only through understanding how modifications such as transplantation, amputation and implantation make our bodies a 'presence' to us, Haddow argues, that we realise our everyday experience of our bodies as an absence.

Contents:

Front matter

Dedication

Contents

List of tables

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Ambiguous embodiment and organ transplantation

2 Choosing between animal, mechanical and me?

3 Reclaiming the cyborg

4 Everyday cyborgs and the love-hate cybernetic relationship

Conclusion

References

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy

Description based on: online resource; title from PDF title page (NCBI, viewed November 3, 2022).

OCLC:

1260161859

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access