{"product_id":"visceral-prostheses-somatechnics-and-posthuman-embodiment-9781350224940","title":"Visceral Prostheses: Somatechnics and Posthuman Embodiment","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Margrit Shildrick\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Ethics \u0026amp; Moral Philosophy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the postmodern era, when the interface of bodies, biologies and technologies increasingly challenges the very notion of what counts as human, this open access book proposes new understandings of the limits and possible extensions of posthuman embodiment. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Focusing on prostheses, Margrit Shildrick broadens our understanding of both what prostheses are and what they might mean for human embodiment. As well as rehabilitation devices used by disabled people to replace or augment impaired parts of the body, Shildrick introduces visceral organic prostheses, which involve any cellular material that cannot be identified with the self, from organ transplantation to the physiological processes of microchimerism and the microbiome. Beyond origin narratives that concentrate on 'host' and 'guest' and 'self' and 'other', she examines the transformative possibilities that prostheses offer as they extend the nature of the embodied self beyond genetic singularity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Building on cutting-edge interdisciplinary research in critical disability studies, transplantation studies, and bioscience, \u003ci\u003eVisceral Prostheses \u003c\/i\u003eargues that bodies with prostheses in whatever form should no longer be understood as irregular forms of normative embodiment, but as limit cases of a common experience. In doing so, it challenges the western understanding of the singular self and welcomes a new understanding of the human. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. \u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45088208715927,"sku":"9781350224940","price":3846.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781350224940.webp?v=1768545915","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/visceral-prostheses-somatechnics-and-posthuman-embodiment-9781350224940","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}