| Modern medicine and the "uncertain body": from corporeality to hyperreality? | |
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PMID: 9257396 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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This paper (re)considers the role of medical technology at three interrelated levels: first, the extent to which medical technology renders our bodies increasingly "uncertain" at the turn of the century; second, the analytical purchase which the notion of the (medical) cyborg provides regarding contemporary forms of human embodiment; and finally, at a broader level, the issues this raises in relation to a (late) modernist or postmodernist reading of contemporary medical practice. Key themes here include the plastic body, the bionic body, communal/interchangeable bodies, (genetically) engineered/ chosen bodies, and virtual bodies. The paper concludes with a critical appraisal of these themes and issues, arguing for a late modernist position on medical technology as both a positive and negative rationalising force, and a "life political agenda" in which the "all-too-human" quality of human nature is seen as inviolable. |
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Authors:
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S J Williams |
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Type: Journal Article |
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Title: Social science & medicine (1982) Volume: 45 ISSN: 0277-9536 ISO Abbreviation: Soc Sci Med Publication Date: 1997 Oct |
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Created Date: 1997-09-17 Completed Date: 1997-09-17 Revised Date: 2004-11-17 |
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Nlm Unique ID: 8303205 Medline TA: Soc Sci Med Country: ENGLAND |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 1041-9 Citation Subset: IM |
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Department of Sociology, University of Warwick, Coventry, England, U.K. |
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Bionics Ethics, Medical Gene Therapy Humans Philosophy Technology, Medical* / trends Transplantation |
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