Medical Technics
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21st century medicine
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aging
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Cancer
cataract surgery
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cyborg
Donna Haraway
embodiment skills
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longevity
medical technologies
microsurgery
Nintendo Surgery
open heart surgery
philosophy of technology
postphenomenology
prostheses
sonography
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- ISBN 9781517908300
- Dimensions: 127 x 178mm
- Publication Date: 30 Sep 2019
- Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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A personal account of the aging body and advanced technologies by a preeminent philosopher of technology
Medical Technics is a rigorous examination of how medical progress has modified our worlds and contributed to a virtual revolution in longevity. Don Ihde offers a unique autobiographical tour of medical events experienced in a decade, beginning in his 70s. Ihde offers experiential and postphenomenological analyses of technologies such as sonography and microsurgery, and ultimately asks what it means to increasingly become a cyborg.
Forerunners: Ideas FirstShort books of thought-in-process scholarship, where intense analysis, questioning, and speculation take the lead
Don Ihde is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, at Stony Brook University, New York.
