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Resilient Cyborgs: Living and Dying with Pacemakers and Defibrillators

Resilient Cyborgs: Living and Dying with Pacemakers and Defibrillators

Oudshoorn, Nelly

Hardcover

Series: Health, Technology and Society

Public HealthAnthropologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 9811525285
ISBN13: 9789811525285
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Apr 3 2020
Pages: 350
Weight: 1.31
Height: 0.88 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
Part I Introduction: Theorizing the Resilience of Hybrid Bodies.- 1. Rematerializing the Cyborg: Understanding the Agency of People Living with Technologies inside Their Bodies.- 2. On Vulnerable Bodies, Transformative Technologies, and Resilient Cyborgs.- Part II Technogeographies of Resilience.- 3. Creating Material-Resilient Cyborgs: Sensing and Tuning Agencies of Pacemakers and Defibrillators.- 4. Passive Victims of Faulty Machines? Anticipating and Taming ICD Shocks.- 5. Wired-Heart Cyborgs and the Materiality of Everyday Life.- Part III Resilience and Difference.- 6. 'How Did You Get that Scar?': Gender and the Appropriation of Visibly Marked Bodies.- 7. How Age Matters: The Emotional Work of Younger and Older People Living with Defibrillators.- Part IV How Hybrid Bodies Fall Apart.- 8. Should we turn off the pacemaker? Trajectories of Dying and Geographies of Rights and Responsibilities.- 9. The Second Life of Pacemakers: Creating Resilient Implants and Infrastructures for Pacemaker Reuse in the Global South.- 10. Conclusions: Towards a Sociology of Resilient Cyborgs.- Index.

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