Cyborg Babies : From Techno-Sex to Techno-Tots - Robbie Davis-Floyd

Cyborg Babies

From Techno-Sex to Techno-Tots

By: Robbie Davis-Floyd (Editor), Joseph Dumit (Editor)

Hardcover | 2 September 1998 | Edition Number 1

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From fetuses scanned ultrasonically to computer hackers in daycare, contemporary children are increasingly rendered cyborg by their immersion in technoculture. Cyborg Babies tracks the process of reproducing children in symbiosis with pervasive technology and offers a range of perspectives, from resistance to ethnographic analysis to science fiction. Contributors, who include Sherry Turkle, Joseph Dumit, Lisa Mitchell and Mizuko Ito, offer cutting-edge ethnographies, critiques, and personal narratives of cyborg conceptions (sperm banks, IVF, surrogacy) and prenatal (mis)diagnosis (DES, ultrasound, amniocentesis); the technological de- and reconstruction of birth in the hospital (electronic fetal monitors, epidurals); and the effects of computer simulation games an cyborg toys and stories on children's emergent consciousness. Examining the increasing cyborgification of the American child, from conception through birth and beyond, Cyborg Babies considers its implications for human cultural and psychological evolution.
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"It is a valuable addition to the vibrant literature that has sprung up around the intersection of medical anthropology, feminist studies, and science and technology studies. ...the collection is highly readable. ...eminently suitable for use in graduate and undergraduate teaching and will be indispensable reading for scholars in the many fields upon which it touches."-"Medical Anthropology Quarterly, December 1999 "This delightfully diverse collection introduces scholars to watch as it presents the possibilities for the future of our species: Will we remain humans, or become monsters?."-"Village Voice ..."fascinating collection of essays...."-"Shift, Nov 1998

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