Medical Technics

A personal account of the aging body and advanced technologies by a preeminent philosopher of technology
Medical Technics is a rigorous examination of how medical progress has modified our worlds and contributed to a virtual revolution in longevity. Don Ihde offers a unique autobiographical tour of medical events experienced in a decade, beginning in his 70s. Ihde offers experiential and postphenomenological analyses of technologies such as sonography and microsurgery, and ultimately asks what it means to increasingly become a cyborg. 
Forerunners: Ideas First
Short books of thought-in-process scholarship, where intense analysis, questioning, and speculation take the lead

About the author

Don Ihde is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, at Stony Brook University, New York.

Product details

• Authors: Don Ihde
• Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9781517908300
• ISBN: 978-1-5179-0830-0
• No. of pages: 94
• Series: Forerunners: Ideas First
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General