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Medical Technics

Part of the Forerunners: Ideas First series
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A personal account of the aging body and advanced technologies by a preeminent philosopher of technologyMedical 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

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1517908302 / 9781517908300
Paperback / softback
613
30/09/2019
United States
English
94 pages
127 x 178 mm