Refracting Through Technologies: Bodies, Medical Technologies and Norms

ISBN-13: 9781138564183 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 138 str.

Ericka Johnson

Opis

This book explores the ‘material-discursive entanglement’ of how we both make the world with our words and how the materiality of the world forces us to put words on it. It uses the metaphor of refraction to show how material things and technologies can be used to refract discourses and articulate the concerns and voices producing them.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Refracting Spectrums of Discourse  2. Viagra in Sweden  3. HPV Vaccines  4. Public Toilets and Ageing Prostates  5. The E-pelvis Simulator and Knowledge of the Body  6. Manipulating the Discursive and the Material. Conclusion

O autorze

Ericka Johnson is Professor of Gender and Society at Linköping University, Sweden. She is the author of Gendering Drugs: Feminist Studies of Pharmaceuticals and Dreaming of a Mail-Order Husband: Russian-American Internet Romance; the co-author of Glocal Pharma: International Brands and the Imagination of Local Masculinity; and the co-editor of Technology and Medical Practice: Blood, Guts and Machines.