1.

Record Nr.

UNISA990002231880203316

Autore

KOLKO, Joyce

Titolo

I limiti della potenza americana : gli Stati Uniti nel mondo dal 1945 al 1954 / Joyce e Gabriel Kolko

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Torino, : Einaudi, 1975

Descrizione fisica

XVI, 903 p. ; 24 cm

Collana

Biblioteca di cultura storica ; 128

Altri autori (Persone)

KOLKO, Gabriel

Disciplina

973.918

Soggetti

Stati Uniti d'America 1945-1954 Storia

Collocazione

XXX.A. Coll. 27/ 85(Coll. BH 128)

X.3.B. 969(V 8 130)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Traduzione di Emilio Sarzi Amadé



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910633944803321

Autore

Haddow Gillian

Titolo

Embodiment and everyday cyborgs : technologies that alter subjectivity / / Gillian Haddow

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, England : , : Manchester University Press, , [2021]

©2021

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 192 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Inscriptions

Disciplina

001.53

Soggetti

Cybernetics

Implants, Artificial

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Your organs are failing and require replacement. If you had the choice, would you prefer organs from other humans or non-human animals, or would you choose a 'cybernetic' medical implant?Using a range of social science methods and drawing on the sociology of the body and embodiment, biomedicine and technology, this book asks what happens to who we are (our identity) when we change what we are (our bodies)? From surveying young adults about whether they would choose options such as 3-D bioprinting, living or deceased human donation, or non-human animal or implantable biomechanical devices, to interviewing those who live with an implantable cardiac defibrillator, Haddow invites us to think about what kind of relationship we have with our bodies. She concludes that the reliance on 'cybernetic' medical devices create 'everyday cyborgs' who can experience alienation and new forms of vulnerability at implantation and activation.Embodiment and everyday cyborgs invites readers to consider the relationship between personal identity and the body, between humans and non-human animals, and our increasing dependency on 'smart' implantable technology. The creation of new techno-organic hybrid bodies makes us acutely aware of our



own bodies and how ambiguous the experience of embodiment actually is. It is only through understanding how modifications such as transplantation, amputation and implantation make our bodies a 'presence' to us, Haddow argues, that we realise our everyday experience of our bodies as an absence.