LIBROS DEL AUTOR: nelly oudshoorn

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  • Resilient Cyborgs
    Nelly Oudshoorn
    This book examines how pacemakers and defibrillators participate in transforming life and death in high-tech societies. In both popular and medical accounts, these internal devices are often portrayed as almost magical technologies. Once implanted in bodies, they do not require any ’user’ agency. In this unique and timely book, Nelly Oudshoorn argues that any discourse or polic...
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    121,24 €

  • Beyond the Natural Body
    Nelly Oudshoorn
    It is now impossible to imagine a world without sex hormones. Women all over the world take hormonal pills to control their fertility and estrogen and proges­terone have become the most widely used drugs in the history of medicine. But why has the female rather than the male body become increasingly subjected to hormonal treatment? Nelly Oudshoorn challenges the idea that there...
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    89,68 €