Resilient cyborgs : living and dying with pacemakers and defibrillators /: living and dying with pacemakers and defibrillators. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Nelly Oudshoorn.
• Authors: Oudshoorn, Nelly, 1950-
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 617.4120645; Cardiac pacemakers; Defibrillators; Medical anthropology
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789811525292
• Related ISBNs: 9789811525285
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