Some reflections on “Prosthetic Bodies: The Human, the Human-Like, and the Monstrous”
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Written by Alberto Giubilini (crossposted with the TORCH Medical Humanities Blog)
Based on the Medical Humanities workshop held on 13th October (with the support of the Uehiro Oxford Institute)
As is often the case in discussion around technology, thinking about the artificial requires thinking about the natural in the first place. For one thing, either concept is defined in opposition to, and therefore in terms of, the other. Everything that is non-natural is artificial, and vice versa. F
Based on the Medical Humanities workshop held on 13th October (with the support of the Uehiro Oxford Institute)
As is often the case in discussion around technology, thinking about the artificial requires thinking about the natural in the first place. For one thing, either concept is defined in opposition to, and therefore in terms of, the other. Everything that is non-natural is artificial, and vice versa. F
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