Cyborg Babies (eBook, PDF)

From Techno-Sex to Techno-Tots
Redaktion: Davis-Floyd, Robbie; Dumit, Joseph

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

From fetuses scanned ultrasonically to computer hackers in daycare, contemporary children are increasingly rendered cyborg by their immersion in technoculture. As we are faced with reproductive choices connected directly with technologies, we often have trouble gaining perspective on our own cultural co-dependency with these very same technologies. Our notions of fetal health, maternal risk and child IQ are inseparable from them.

CyborgBabies 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. Cultural anthropologists and social critics 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 and cyborg toys and stories on children's emergent consciousness.

Contributors include Janet Isaacs Ashford, Elizabeth Cartwright, David Chamberlain, Jennifer Croissant, Charis M. Cussins, Robbie Davis-Floyd, Joseph Dumit, Eugenia Georges, Anne Hill, Mizuko Ito, Emily Martin, Steven Daniel Mentor, Janneli F. Miller, Lisa Mitchell, Lisa Jean Moore, Rayna Rapp, Matthew A. Schmidt, Syvia Sensiper, Elizabeth Roberts and Sherry Turkle.

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135240929
• Artikelnr.: 39478755

Autorenporträt

Robbie Davis-Floyd is a Research Fellow at the University of Texas, Austin. She is the author of Birth as anAmerican Rite of Passage (1992) and co-editor of Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (1997). Joseph Dumit is an NIMH Research Fellow in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is the co-editor of Cyborgs andCitadels: Anthropological Interventions in Emerging Sciences, Technologies and Medicines (1997) and is assistant editor of Culture, Medicine and Society.

Inhaltsangabe

Joseph Dumit and Robbie Davis-Floyd , Introduction: Cyborg Babies: Children
of the Third Millenium Part One: CYBORG CONCEPTIONS One Matthew Schmidt and
Lisa Jean Moore , Constructing a Good Catch, Picking a Winner The
Development of Technosemen and the Deconstruction of the Monolithic Male
Two Charis M. Cussins , Quit Sniveling, Cryo-Baby. We'll Work Out Which
One's Your Mama! Three Steven Mentor , Witches, Nurses, Midwives, and
Cyborgs IVF, ART, and Complex Agency in the World of Technobirth Four Janet
Isaacs Ashford , Natural Love Part Two: THE TECHNO-FETUS Five Lisa M.
Mitchell and Eugenia Georges , Baby's First Picture The Cyborg Fetus of
Ultrasound Imaging Six Emily Martin , The Fetus as Intruder Mother's Bodies
and Medical Metaphors Seven Rayna Rapp , Refusing Prenatal Diagnosis The
Uneven Meanings of Bioscience in a Multicultural World Eight David B.
Chamberlain , Babies Don't Feel Pain A Century of Denial in Medicine Part
Three: MACHINES AND MOTHERS: POSTMODERN PREGNANCY, CYBORG BIRTH Nine
Elizabeth F. S. Roberts , Native Narratives of Connectedness Surrogate
Motherhood and Technology Ten Joseph Dumit with Sylvia Sensiper , Living
with the Truths of DES Toward an Anthropology of Facts Eleven Elizabeth
Cartwright , The Logic of Heartbeats Electronic Fetal Monitoring and
Biomedically Constructed Birth Twelve Robbie Davis-Floyd , From Technobirth
to Cyborg Babies Reflections on the Emergent Discourse of a Holistic
Anthropologist Part Four: TECHNO-TOYS AND TECHNO-TOTS Thirteen Jennifer L.
Croissant , Growing Up Cyborg Developmental Stories for Postmodern Children
Fourteen Mizuko Ito , Inhabiting Multiple Worlds Making Sense of SimCity
2000 in the Fifth Dimension Fifteen Sherry Turkle , Cyborg Babies and
Cy-Dough-Plasm Ideas about Self and Life in the Culture of Simulation
Sixteen Anne Hill , Children of Metis: Beyond Zeus the Creator Paganism and
the Possibilities for Embodied Cyborg Childraising