The Cyborg Handbook

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ISBN: 9780415908498 | 0415908493
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Copyright: 10/2/1995

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The Cyborg (short for cybernetic organism) is an entity that mixes the mechanic and the organic, for example people who have implanted pacemakers. The Cyborg Handbook is an initial look at cyborg society and at the range of cyborg technologies.

Foreword : Cyborgs and Symbionts: Living Together in the New World Order
Introduction: Cyborgology: Constructing the Knowledge of Cybernetic Organisms	p. 1
African Influences in Cybernetics	p. 17
Cyborgs and Space	p. 29
Cyborg II: Sentic Space Travel	p. 35
An Interview with Manfred E. Clynes	p. 43
How Do We Get There?	p. 55
An Interview with Jack E. Steele	p. 61
Engineering Man For Space: The Cyborg Study	p. 75
Teleoperators and Human Augmentation	p. 83
An Interview with Patricia Cowings	p. 93
Pilot's Associate	p. 101
Science Fiction Becomes Military Fact	p. 104
Short Circuit: Watching Television with a Nuclear-Weapons Scientist	p. 107
Socializing the Cyborg Self: The Gulf War and Beyond	p. 119
Children of the Mind with Disposable Bodies: Metaphors of Self in a Text on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics	p. 127
Modernity, Postmodernity, and Reproductive Processes, ca. 1890-1990, or "Mommy, Where Do Cyborgs Come From Anyway?"	p. 139
Barney B. Clark, DDS: A View From the Medical Service	p. 157
Artificial Heart and Assist Devices: Directions, Needs, Costs, Societal and Ethical Issues	p. 161
Artificial Liver: Present and Future	p. 163
ISAO Proffers a Marvelous Cover for Acting Out Fantasies	p. 167
Minerva v. National Health Agency	p. 169
Fetal Cyborgs and Technomoms on the Reproductive Frontier: Which Way to the Carnival?	p. 183
Tales From the Cryptic: Technology Meets Organism in the Living Cadaver	p. 203
From Captain America to Wolverine: Cyborgs in Comic Books, Alternative Images of Cybernetic Heroes and Villains	p. 219
Recalling Totalities: The Mirrored Stages of Arnold Schwarzenegger	p. 233
Art, Psychasthenic Assimilation, and the Cybernetic Automaton	p. 255
Envisioning Cyborg Bodies: Notes From Current Research	p. 267
"Death is Irrelevant": Cyborgs, Reproduction, and the Future of Male Hysteria	p. 281
Digital Pistil	p. 301
I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon	p. 307
The Life Cycle of Cyborgs: Writing the Posthuman	p. 321
Cyborg Anthropology	p. 341
Brain-Mind Machines and American Technological Dream Marketing: Towards an Ethnography of Cyborg Envy	p. 347
Human Agency in CAD/CAM Technology	p. 363
On Low-Tech Cyborgs	p. 371
"Perhaps Images at One with the World are Already Lost Forever": Visions of Cyborg Anthropology in Post-Cultural Worlds	p. 379
Split Subjects, Not Atoms; or, How I Fell In Love With My Prosthesis	p. 393
New Sciences: Cyborg Feminism and the Methodology of the Oppressed	p. 407
Postcolonial Cyborgs: Subjectivity in the Age of Cybernetic Reproduction	p. 423
From Cognitive Psychologies to Mythologies: Advancing Cyborg Textualities for a Narrative of Resistance	p. 433
The Conversion of Pere Version	p. 445
The Cyborg Body Politic: Version 1.2	p. 453
Bibliography	p. 469
Filmography	p. 475
Biographies	p. 478
Index	p. 481
Illustrations	p. 537
Acknowledgements	p. 539
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