1st Edition
Bodies and Enhancement Technology A Posthumanist Exploration of Somatechnologies
By Lucie Dalibert
Copyright 2017
232 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
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Routledge
Against the background of debates surrounding the development and application of human enhancement technologies, this book asks how should we apprehend and conceptualise the relations between humans and augmentation technologies. Conceiving of such technologies as somatechnologies – technologies that act on interact with and transform the body – it moves beyond the notion of ‘the human’ as a... Read more
1. Introduction: The Implicit Normativity of the Human Enhancement Debate
2. Enhancement and Posthumanism
3. The Genealogy of the Posthuman and Posthumanism
4. Somatechnology: Conceptualizations of Human-Technology Relations
5. Case Studies: Prosthetics and Spinal Cord Stimulation
6. Conclusions
Biography
Lucie Dalibert is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Health, Ethics and Society at Maastricht University, The Netherlands.
