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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.

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Medical Technics

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      Publisher University of Minnesota Press
      Published 30 September 2019
      ISBN-13 9781517908300
      978-1517908300
      ISBN-10 1517908302
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      History of medicine Health, illness or addiction: social aspects Impact of science and technology on society

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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 First
      Short books of thought-in-process scholarship, where intense analysis, questioning, and speculation take the lead

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