1st Edition
Refracting through Technologies Bodies, Medical Technologies and Norms
By Ericka Johnson
Copyright 2020
144 Pages
by
Routledge
144 Pages
by
Routledge
144 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book explores the ‘material-discursive entanglement’ of how we both make the world with our words and how the materiality of the world forces us to put words on it. Beginning with the conundrum of how the things that make up our world are both shaped by and shape the ways in which we talk about, engage with and think about them, the author accepts the entanglement and then works backwards,... Read more
Introduction
1. Refracting Spectrums of Siscourse
2. Viagra in Sweden
3. HPV Vaccines
4. Public Toilets and Ageing Prostates
5. The E-pelvis Simulator and Knowledge of the Body
6. Manipulating the Discursive and the Material
7. Conclusion
Biography
Ericka Johnson is Professor of Gender and Society at Linköping University, Sweden. She is the author of Gendering Drugs: Feminist Studies of Pharmaceuticals and Dreaming of a Mail-Order Husband: Russian-American Internet Romance; the co-author of Glocal Pharma: International Brands and the Imagination of Local Masculinity; and the co-editor of Technology and Medical Practice: Blood, Guts and Machines.
