Davis-Floyd / Dumit Cyborg Babies

From Techno-Sex to Techno-Tots
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-135-24092-9
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 368 Seiten

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davis-Floyd, Robbie

Dumit, Joseph

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert Pop Art, Minimalismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Robbie Davis-Floyd is a Research Fellow at the University of Texas, Austin. She is the author of Birth as an American 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 and Citadels: Anthropological Interventions in Emerging Sciences, Technologies and Medicines (1997) and is assistant editor of Culture, Medicine and Society.