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- Offers the first intensive study of what it means to live and die with pacemakers and defibrillators inside the body
- Expands the scope of STS scholarship on users and theories of human-technology relations and agency to include technologies inside bodies
- Offers a cutting edge and unique resource for students and academics (from upper level undergraduates to professional researchers) in the fields of Sociology and Anthropology of Medicine, Science and Technology Studies, and Gender Studies
Part of the book series: Health, Technology and Society (HTE)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction: Theorizing the Resilience of Hybrid Bodies
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How Hybrid Bodies Fall Apart
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Back Matter
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Reviews
“Resilient Cyborgs is an exquisitely observed account of an important topic, and deserves a wide readership. In feminist science and technology studies and related fields, we have much to learn from the wired heart cyborgs living among us.” (Anne Pollock, Catalyst, catalystjournal.org, April, 2021)
“I found Resilient Cyborgs to be an excellent discussion of the shared work required in order to live (and die) with a pacemaker or defibrillator. Oudshoorn is particularly successful in placing patient experience and expertise front and centre, without ever under-( or over-) stating the role of medics, technicians, friends and family, society and politics. As a young, female wired heart cyborg myself … encountered many new-to-me aspects of life with a cardiac device.” (Laura Donald, Sociology of Health & Illness, April 8, 2021)
“This book can act as a thought-provoking work for different scholars in getting closer to a complex theme. … Oudshoorn’s analysis on a more solid basis. The intersectional approach may provide an important heuristic for grasping the multiple differences on building resilience.” (Veronica Moretti, TECNOSCIENZA, Vol. 11 (2), 2020)
‘This fine book makes me more resilient, as we all come to live with the “body companion technologies” that Oudshoorn explores with her subtle and generous critical spirit rooted in thick ethnography. She tells us with rich detail and analytical acumen how specific kinds of implanted body companions reshape our hearts and syncopate our rhythms of living and dying. Oudshoorn’s care for the people she studies infuses the tissues of this book as she helps readers understand both new vulnerabilities and heartening resilience.’ (Donna Haraway, Distinguished Professor Emerita, History of Consciousness Department, University of California at Santa Cruz)‘“The body electric” is the subject of Oudshoorn’s comprehensive sociology of the implantable cardiac defibrillator, that “body companion technology” placed in thousands of people annually. From the re-making of self-awareness to the materiality and agency of the wired heart itself, the book shows what it takes to live and die as a hybrid. An important addition to the social studies of biomedicine.’ (Sharon R. Kaufman, Professor Emerita, Medical Anthropology, University of California, San Francisco)
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Science, Technology and Policy Studies, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
Nelly Oudshoorn
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Resilient Cyborgs
Book Subtitle: Living and Dying with Pacemakers and Defibrillators
Authors: Nelly Oudshoorn
Series Title: Health, Technology and Society
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2529-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-2528-5Published: 03 April 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-2531-5Published: 03 April 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-2529-2Published: 02 April 2020
Series ISSN: 2946-3386
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3378
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 350
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations
Topics: Science and Technology Studies, Medical Sociology, Medical Anthropology, Gender Studies, Disability Studies