Cyborg Babies

From Techno-sex to Techno-tots

Author: Robbie Davis-Floyd
Secondary Author: Joseph Dumit
ISBN: 9780415916042

This text explores the increasingly pervasive role of technology in childrens lives, from conception to birth to childcare. From foetuses scanned electronically to wired toddlers, children are being rendered cyborg by their immersion in technoculture. The contributors, who include Sherry Turkle, Emily Martin and Mikuko Ito, discuss the co-development of the human and the machine. While much popular reporting swings between presenting technology as monstrous or science as saviour, this volume argues for a more complex analysis, and provides a range of perspectives from cultural anthropologists to social critics. Subjects discussed include: popular reporting of cyborg babymaking, including IVF, sperm banks, surrogacy, ultrasound and amniocentesis; the technological management of childbirth in hospitals; and the technologically-saturated world of childhood, from vitamin injections to TV toy tie-ins.

Publisher: Psychology Press
Publish Date: 1998

Subjects: Medical / Reproductive Medicine & Technology, Science / Life Sciences / Anatomy & Physiology, Science / Philosophy & Social Aspects, Technology & Engineering / Social Aspects

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