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| Introduction: The Paradox of Reproductive Technologies | 1 | |
| Ch. 1 | Preliminary Movements: The Body of Theories, Practices, and Texts | |
| A Coincidence of Medical Science, History and Bodies | 9 | |
| Technology and the Transformation of Problem-definitions | 21 | |
| Contemporary Technological Practices | 25 | |
| Technologies as Discursive Practices | 35 | |
| Ch. 2 | The Making of the New Patients | |
| Introducing: The Couple and the Fetus | 43 | |
| The Problematic Origins of the New Patients | 48 | |
| Technologies of Shifting the Problem | 52 | |
| Couples and Fetuses as Hybrids | 68 | |
| Ch. 3 | Treatments for Men and Children | |
| The Deletion Pattern | 75 | |
| The Purification Pattern | 82 | |
| Evaluative Comparisons, or: How to Render Incomparable Things Comparable | 90 | |
| The Co-production of Technological Practices and Legitimacy | 97 | |
| Ch. 4 | Elusive Body Boundaries and Individuality | |
| Body Boundaries | 101 | |
| Shifting Body Boundaries and Expanding Technologies | 105 | |
| The Politics of Ontology / Living Bodies as Prostheses | 110 | |
| The Stability of Moral Body Boundaries | 112 | |
| Ch. 5 | "Only Angels Can Do Without Skin." A Note on the Politics of Theorizing the Body | |
| Technology Critique as Modernity Critique | 126 | |
| "Beyond" Modernity: Cyborgs and Hybrids | 128 | |
| Some Pitfalls of a Modernist Postmodernism | 130 | |
| Continuity Versus Discontinuity and the Possibility of Critique | 133 | |
| Notes | 137 | |
| References | 151 | |
| Index | 163 |
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reviewed Prosthetic Bodies on April 23, 2013 Prosthetic Bodies
What a fascinating and controversial topic!
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