Enhancement Technologies and the Body
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2296537 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Linda F Hogle (0009-0000-6792-0715, Department of Medical History and Bioethics and Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 695-716 |
| Publication date | 2005-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annual Review of Anthropology (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0084-6570 • E-ISSN: 1545-4290 |
| Publisher | Annual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1146/annurev.anthro.33.070203.144020 |
| OpenAlex | W2165890546 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 60 |
| References cited | 47 |
The technological ability to alter biology, along with the social conditions and cultural expectations that enable such transformations, is spawning a variety of techniques that augment bodily forms and functions. These techniques, collectively known as enhancement technologies, aim to improve human characteristics, including appearance and mental or physical functioning, often beyond what is 'normal' or necessary for life and well-being. Humans have always modified their bodies. What distinguishes these techniques is that bodies and selves become the objects of improvement work, unlike previous efforts in modernity to achieve progress through social and political institutions. There are profound effects on sociality and subjectivity. This chapter reviews analytical approaches through which researchers have attempted to illuminate the practices, moral and economic reasoning, cultural assumptions and institutional contexts constituting enhancements, framing the discussion by examining the concept of the normal body. Examples from cosmetic, neurological and genetic enhancements will illustrate
Biology · Cognitive science · Emerging technologies · Engineering ethics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Framing (construction · Human enhancement · Modernity · Political science · Politics · Sociality · Sociology · Subjectivity · Variety (cybernetics · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Ecology · Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations · Psychology
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Messengers of Sex
Introduction
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Rebooting Inclusive Education? New Technologies and Disabled People
The Ethics of Supernumerary Robotic Limbs. An Enactivist Approach
Emotions toward cognitive enhancement technologies and the body – Attitudes and willingness to use
STS and Enhancement Technologies – A Programme for Future Research
A look into future risks
Affordance-based accounts of the ethics of artefacts and their application to neuroenhancement technologies
Aging in the Biosocial Order
Da materialidade sufocante ao corpo informatizado
Health beyond the carbon barrier
Disfigurement, the body and dress
El fracaso de las biopolíticas posmodernas
The failure of postmodern biopolitics
Body and Enhancement Technology
The Dubious Enhancement
Blade Runner and Memory Devices
Introduction
Modalities of value, exchange, solidarity
Contested expectations
International law, public health, and the meanings of pharmaceuticalization
Quantifying the body
Value change through information exchange in human–machine interaction
Wearable technologies as extensions
Science, Technology, and Human Health
Umwelt Extended
The Embodied Life Course
Hacking age
Enhancement, ethics and society
Limitless? Imaginaries of cognitive enhancement and the labouring body
Medical tourism in tango paradise
La biomedicalización de las vidas de las mujeres
What Enhancement Techniques Suggest about the Good Death
Transformative Possibilities
Naturezas e vidas multiplicadas - a propósito de como o corpo e a materialidade permitem à antropologia canibalizar a dicotomia natureza e cultura e suas correlatas
Corpos biônicos e órgãos intercambiáveis
Networked Scars
I recorded my movements in the smartphone
I've left enough data
Reclaiming beauty
Testing Ecology
Subject in the Making
Gangnam-Style Plastic Surgery
(Micro-) "Psychedelic" Experiences
The Biopolitical Embodiment of Work in the Era of Human Enhancement
At Such a Good School, Everybody Needs It
Envelhecimento ativo e a indústria da perfeição
Multiplicidade e instabilidade ontológica nos corações não-humanos
Multiplicity and ontological instability in nonhuman hearts
The Hormone of Growth and Hope. The Case of Turner Syndrome
Just Take Viagra
Disability Worlds
Neuroculture, active ageing and the 'older brain
Beyond health
"Kill-Proofing" the Soldier
The Ecobiopolitics of Space Biomedicine
From Idiophylaxis to Inner Armor
Racial hygiene
The normal and the pathological
Health, race, and German politics between national unification and Nazism, 1870-1945
Venus envy
The Taming of Chance
How We Became Posthuman
From Chance to Choice
Making the Body Beautiful
The Body in Consumer Culture
Reproducing the future
Genealogical Dis-Ease
The Body and Physical Difference
Global Assemblages
Monitoring and Manipulating Brain Function
Biogerontology, "Anti-Aging Medicine," and the Challenges of Human Enhancement
Steven Polgar Prize Essay (1991). Medicalization of Racial Features
The Politics of Life Itself
The Body & Society
Human Genetic Enhancements
Genomic Capital
The Anxieties of Globalization
On the Cutting Edge
Health, Race, and German Politics between National Unification and Nazism, 1870-1945
Bending Over Backwards
The Rhetoric and Counter-Rhetoric of a "Bionic" Technology
Stem Cells, Tissue Cultures and the Production of Biovalue
Culturing Biology
A Dubious Equality
Body Modification
Cosmetic Surgery and the Eclipse of Identity
The End of the Body
Neurochemical selves
Making PCR
Why Am I Not Disabled? Making State Subjects, Making Statistics in Post-;Mao China
Mind-Body Problems
The Body in Consumer Culture
The Politics of Life Itself
| Unique citing works | 60 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,16 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2026 (20) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 59 |