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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
- Date of Publication 19 October 2023
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781350224940
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages272 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English 547
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Long description:
In the postmodern era, when the interface of bodies, biologies and technologies increasingly challenges the very notion of what counts as human, this open access book proposes new understandings of the limits and possible extensions of posthuman embodiment.
Focusing on prostheses, Margrit Shildrick broadens our understanding of both what prostheses are and what they might mean for human embodiment. As well as rehabilitation devices used by disabled people to replace or augment impaired parts of the body, Shildrick introduces visceral organic prostheses, which involve any cellular material that cannot be identified with the self, from organ transplantation to the physiological processes of microchimerism and the microbiome. Beyond origin narratives that concentrate on 'host' and 'guest' and 'self' and 'other', she examines the transformative possibilities that prostheses offer as they extend the nature of the embodied self beyond genetic singularity.
Building on cutting-edge interdisciplinary research in critical disability studies, transplantation studies, and bioscience, Visceral Prostheses argues that bodies with prostheses in whatever form should no longer be understood as irregular forms of normative embodiment, but as limit cases of a common experience. In doing so, it challenges the western understanding of the singular self and welcomes a new understanding of the human.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1: From Mechanical To Visceral Prostheses
Chapter 1: Disability
Chapter 2: Organ And Tissue Transplantation
Chapter 3: Microchimerism And The Microbiome
Part 2: Some Case Studies
Chapter 4: Dementia
Chapter 5: Stem Cell Transplant
Chapter 6: Surrogacy
Part 3: Towards Posthuman Embodiment
Chapter 7: Life And Death
Chapter 8: The Ethics Of A New Imaginary
Conclusion
References
Index
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