Theorising Personal Medical Devices
Year: 2017
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: This chapter theorises Personal Medical Devices (PMDs) as technologies and as agents in the construction of self and society. PMDs are at the forefront of technological evolution, taking on biological properties. As interactive network devices, they also connect to issues pertaining to Big Data and the sensor society, including new ways of being tracked and hacked. But these new technologies also map onto old anxieties regarding what it is to be human. We have always used technologies to be competent in the world and to enhance ourselves. For this reason, it is urged that we see PMDs as prostheses.
Source: Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks
Author: Steve Matthewman
Institution: University of Auckland
Language: English
Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2762960165