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Resilient Cyborgs = Living and Dying with Pacemakers and Defibrillators /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Resilient Cyborgs/ by Nelly Oudshoorn.
Reminder of title:	Living and Dying with Pacemakers and Defibrillators /
Author:	Oudshoorn, Nelly.
Description:	XX, 350 p. 10 illus.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Technology—Sociological aspects. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2529-2
ISBN:	9789811525292

Resilient Cyborgs = Living and Dying with Pacemakers and Defibrillators /
Oudshoorn, Nelly.

Resilient CyborgsLiving and Dying with Pacemakers and Defibrillators /[electronic resource] :by Nelly Oudshoorn. - 1st ed. 2020. - XX, 350 p. 10 illus.online resource. - Health, Technology and Society. - Health, Technology and Society.

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.

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

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

1266803
Technology—Sociological aspects.

LC Class. No.: HM846-851

Dewey Class. No.: 303.483

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