Corporate skin: Biosocial relations, tropes, and institutions in prosthetics research and development

Modern orthopaedic prosthetics imitate biological organs or their functions, interacting with the body of amputees, and are designed and manufactured corporately. Thus, prosthetics constitute a privileged vantage point to witness the intermingling of society and nature, as well as how biosocial rela...

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Authors: Giraldo Herrera, César E. (Author) ; Gísli Pálsson 1949- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage Publ. [2019]
In: Journal of material culture
Year: 2019, Volume: 24, Issue: 3, Pages: 360-380
IxTheo Classification:ZB Sociology
Further subjects:B R&D
B Corporation
B Apprenticeship
B organic trope
B prosthesis
B research and development
B Skin
B biosociality
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