Exoskeletal Devices and the Body - Deviant Bodies, Extended Bodies

This book enquires from a sociological perspective into contemporary corporeal transformations brought about by exoskeletal devices.

List of contents

1. Introduction: From science fictions to science facts
Part I. Technological objects facing embodied subjects
2. Among bodies, exoskeletons and sites
3. Where exoskeletons aim to enter: Realms of human bodies
Part II. Exoskeletons and their corporeal worlds
4. Impaired bodies
5. Able bodies
Part III. What exoskeletons do to the body: Advancing corporealities
6. New body shapes
7. Reinvesting corporeal capabilities: "Deviance" and "extension" redefined
8. Epilogue: Producing bodies while extending them

About the author

Denisa Butnaru is Deputy Professor of General and Cultural Sociology in the Department of History, Sociology, Empirical Educational Research and Sport Science, University of Konstanz, Germany. Her areas of research are socioanthropology of the body and technology, contemporary developments in phenomenology of the body, and qualitative methodology in the social sciences.

Summary

This book enquires from a sociological perspective into contemporary corporeal transformations brought about by exoskeletal devices.

Product details

• Authors: Denisa Butnaru, Denisa (University of Konstanz Butnaru, Butnaru Denisa
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.11.2024
• EAN: 9781032503776
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3250377-6
• No. of pages: 242
• Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Cultural Studies, Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Illness & addiction: social aspects, Social and cultural anthropology, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Medical Sociology, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, Phenomenology and Existentialism, Research methods: general