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Resilient cyborgsliving and dying wi...

Oudshoorn, Nelly.

Resilient cyborgsliving and dying with pacemakers and defibrillators /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Resilient cyborgsby Nelly Oudshoorn.
Reminder of title:	living and dying with pacemakers and defibrillators /
Author:	Oudshoorn, Nelly.
Published:	Singapore :Springer Singapore :2020.
Description:	xx, 350 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Cardiac pacemakers.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2529-2
ISBN:	9789811525292$q(electronic bk.)

Resilient cyborgsliving and dying with pacemakers and defibrillators /
Oudshoorn, Nelly.

Resilient cyborgsliving and dying with pacemakers and defibrillators /[electronic resource] :by Nelly Oudshoorn. - Singapore :Springer Singapore :2020. - xx, 350 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Health, technology and society. - Health, technology and society..

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.

ISBN: 9789811525292$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-981-15-2529-2doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

503640
Cardiac pacemakers.

LC Class. No.: RC684.P3 / O83 2020

Dewey Class. No.: 617.4120645

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