Cyborgs & Citadels: Anthropological Interventions in Emerging Sciences and Technologies
Gary Lee Downey, Emily Martin, Sarah Williams, Paul Rabinow, David J. HessBooks.org participates in affiliate programs including Bookshop.org and the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program. We may earn a commission from qualifying purchases made through links on this page, at no additional cost to you.
Overview
Some of the country's most influential thinkers use anthropological methods and theories to examine the practices and practitioners of contemporary science, technology, and medicine in the United States. The authors explore such questions as how science gains authority to direct truth practices, the boundaries between humans and machines, and how science, technology, and medicine contribute to the fashioning of selves.Synopsis
Some of this country's most imaginative and influential thinkers explore questions such as how science gains authority to direct truth practices, the boundaries between humans and machines, and how science, technology, and medicine contribute to the fashioning of selves. Fieldwork sites include a prenatal sonogram clinic, an inner-city AIDS clinic, a center for brain imaging technology, and a particle physics lab.
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From a week-long seminar in October 1993 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, 11 essays explore such questions as the Citadel problem of how science gains authority to direct truth practices; the boundaries between humans and machines; and the Cyborg problem of how science, technology, and medicine contribute to the fashioning of everyday lives and selves. They report from a prenatal sonogram program, an inner-city AIDS clinic, a molecular biotechnology lab, a center for brain imaging technology, and other corners of the industrial wilds. Distributed in the US by University of Washington Press. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.