Cyborgs and Citadels: Anthropological Interventions in Emerging Sciences and Technologies / Edition 1

by Gary Lee Downey, Joseph Dumit

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780933452978
Publisher:	School for Advanced Research Press
Publication date:	03/01/1998
Series:	School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series
Edition description:	1st Edition
Pages:	318
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.81(d)

Editorial Reviews

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.

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