Cyborg babies : from techno-sex to techno-tots / edited by Robbie Davis-Floyd and Joseph Dumit.
| Other author | Davis-Floyd, Robbie. |
| Other author | Dumit, Joseph. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Routledge, 1998. |
| Description | 358 pages ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents |
| Supplemental Content | Publisher description |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Cyborg babies: children of the third millennium / Joseph Dumit and Robbie Davis-Floyd -- pt. 1. Cyborg conceptions. Constructing a "good catch," picking a winner: the development of technosemen and the deconstruction of the monolithic male / Matthew Schmidt and Lisa Jean Moore ; "Quit sniveling, cryo-baby. We'll work out which one's your mama!" / Charis M. Cussins ; Witches, nurses, midwives, and cyborgs: IVF, ART, and complex agency in the world of technobirth / Steven Mentor ; Natural love / Janet Isaacs Ashford -- pt. 2. The techno-fetus. Baby's first picture: the cyborg fetus of ultrasound imaging / Lisa M. Mitchell and Eugenia Georges ; The fetus as intruder: mother's bodies and medical metaphors / Emily Martin ; Refusing prenatal diagnosis: the uneven meanings of bioscience in a multicultural world / Rayna Rapp ; Babies don't feel pain: a century of denial in medicine / David B. Chamberlain -- pt. 3. Machines and mothers: postmodern pregnancy, cyborg birth. "Native" narratives of connectedness: surrogate motherhood and technology / Elizabeth F.S. Roberts ; Living with the "truths" of DES: toward an anthropology of facts / Joseph Dumit with Sylvia Sensiper ; The logic of heartbeats: electronic fetal monitoring and biomedically constructed birth / Elizabeth Cartwright ; From technobirth to cyborg babies: reflections on the emergent discourse of a Holistic Anthropologist / Robbie Davis-Floyd -- pt. 4. Techno-toys and techno-tots. Growing up cyborg: developmental stories for postmodern children / Jennifer L. Croissant ; Inhabiting multiple worlds: making sense of SimCity 2000" in the Fifth Dimension / Mizuko Ito -- Cyborg babies and cy-dough-plasm: ideas about self and life in the culture of simulation / Sherry Turkle -- Children of Metis: beyond Zeus the Creator: Paganism and the possibilities for embodied cyborg childraising / Anne Hill. |
| Summary | Cyborg Babies tracks the process of reproducing children in symbiosis with pervasive technology and offers a range of perspectives, from resistance to ethnographic analysis to science fiction. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Genre/form | Aufsatzsammlung. |
| LCCN | 97044516 |
| ISBN | 0415916038 (hc) |
| ISBN | 9780415916035 (hc) |
| ISBN | 0415916046 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 9780415916042 (pbk.) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | RG133.5 .C9 1998 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |