| Description |
1 online resource (359 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) |
| Series |
Health, Technology and Society |
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Health, technology, and society.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Series Editors' Preface -- Contents -- About the Author -- List of Figures -- Part I: Introduction: Theorizing the Resilience of Hybrid Bodies -- 1: Rematerializing the Cyborg: Understanding the Agency of People Living with Technologies Inside Their Bodies -- Pacemakers and Internal Defibrillators as Ordinary Medicine in the Global North -- Pacemakers and ICDs as Invasive Technologies -- On Primary Prevention and the Treatment Imperative -- Disparities in Access -- Hybrid Bodies as Passive? -- On Old and New Cyborgs |
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Rethinking Dominant Views on Human-Technology Relations -- Understanding the Agency of Hybrid Bodies -- Everyday Cyborgs -- Rematerializing the Cyborg -- Bibliography -- 2: On Vulnerable Bodies, Transformative Technologies, and Resilient Cyborgs -- Transformative Technologies -- On Vulnerable Bodies and Fragile Technologies -- Techniques of Resilience -- Research Questions, Method, and Organization of the Book -- Techno-Geographies of Resilience -- Resilience and Difference -- How Hybrid Bodies Fall Apart -- Bibliography -- Part II: Technogeographies of Resilience |
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3: Creating Material Resilient Cyborgs: Sensing and Tuning Agencies of Pacemakers and Defibrillators -- Gazing into the Hybrid Body -- 'They Can Look Through Your Skin': Exposing Hybrid Bodies to Machines -- 'That Little Beep Could Be Telling You Something': Listening to Hybrid Bodies -- 'Don't Be Frightened, I Will Take Over Your Heartbeat': Intervening in the Agency of the Heart -- 'I Am So Tired': Tuning Conflicting Agencies -- Who Can Make a Difference? -- The Perfect Cyborg Does Not Exist -- Creating Techniques of Resilience on Your Own -- Bibliography |
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4: Passive Victims of Faulty Machines? Anticipating and Taming ICD Shocks -- New Technologies, New Sensory Experiences -- Vulnerability as an Internal Rather Than an External Threat -- The Sensory Experience of ICD Shocks -- Sensing and Making Sense of Inappropriate Shocks -- Vulnerability as a Harm You May Try to Anticipate but Can Never Escape -- Regaining Control: Material Practices for Taming the Unwanted Agency of ICDs -- Existential Uncertainties -- Bibliography -- Digital Sources: Posts at the SCA Association Support Community website 2007-2014. Accessed 1 April 2014 |
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5: Wired Heart Cyborgs and the Materiality of Everyday Life -- Protecting Hybrid Bodies from External Harm -- Disentanglement Work in Public Spaces: Avoiding Potentially Disruptive Technologies at Airports -- Protecting the Hybrid Body in the Workplace and at Home -- Disentanglement Work and Intimate Relations -- Reinventing Intimacy with Loved Ones -- 'Now About Our Kids': Disentanglement and Incorporation -- Protecting the Electronically Wired Body Against External Disruptions -- Why We Should Worry About Hackable Hearts?15 -- Non-Use as Disentanglement Work -- Wired Heart Cyborgs as Disabled? |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Cardiac pacemakers.
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Pacemaker, Artificial
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Cardiac pacemakers
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789811525292 |
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9811525293 |
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