The Cyborg Handbook - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415908493 ISBN 13: 9780415908498

Publisher: Routledge, 1995

Synopsis

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

The Cyborg Handbook is an initial look at cyborg society and at the range of cyborg technologies, from the restorative and normalizing to the reconfiguring and enhancing. These technologies can restore some to health and they can prolong horrible deaths, but they can also remake humans into more effective killers. Cyborgs, good, bad, and indifferent, are with us.

From Library Journal:

One of society's oldest dreams has been to create a living machine. To most of us, cyborgs are Terminator or Robocop types who combine artificial robotic strength and firepower with human intelligence/cunning. Yet Gray, a 1994-95 NASA Fellow in Aerospace History, has collected writings that explore real cyborgs (or cybernetic organisms) as any entities that mix the mechanical with the organic. Thus, humans with prostheses or implanted pacemakers qualify as cyborgs. This fascinating assemblage of essays, short stories, and research findings covers the role of this incredible modern technology through its varied uses in medicine, space research, and military applications. Articles are written by experts in the field of cybernetics, including Donna Haraway. This unique work combines scientific fact and science fiction. The bibliography and filmography are invaluable additions. For large public and academic libraries.?Joe Accardi, Northeastern Illinois Univ. Lib., Chicago
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0415908493
• ISBN 13: 9780415908498
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 568