{"product_id":"refracting-through-technologies-bodies-medical-technologies-and-norms-paperback","title":"Refracting Through Technologies: Bodies, Medical Technologies and Norms - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEricka Johnson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book explores the 'material-discursive entanglement' of how we both make the world with our words and how the materiality of the world forces us to put words on it. Beginning with the conundrum of how the things that make up our world are both shaped by and shape the ways in which we talk about, engage with and think about them, the author accepts the entanglement and then works backwards, using the metaphor of refraction to help articulate the structures, values and norms that discursively shape our world and our selves in it. Through a series of empirical examples taken from work on medical technologies and the body, \u003ci\u003eRefracting through Technologies\u003c\/i\u003e shows how researchers and designers can use material things - technologies - to refract discourses and articulate the concerns and voices producing them. Refraction as a metaphor is thus revealed to be an important concept, enabling scholars to apply analytical work to political concerns about the technological world. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology, science and technology studies, philosophy and design with interests in technoscience, feminist thought and social theory. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEricka Johnson\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Gender and Society at Linköping University, Sweden. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eGendering Drugs: Feminist Studies of Pharmaceuticals\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDreaming of a Mail-Order Husband: Russian-American Internet Romance\u003c\/i\u003e; the co-author of \u003ci\u003eGlocal Pharma: International Brands and the Imagination of Local Masculinity\u003c\/i\u003e; and the co-editor of \u003ci\u003eTechnology and Medical Practice: Blood, Guts and Machines\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 138\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.31 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 18, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47657793126659,"sku":"9781138564190","price":95.4,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0588\/9310\/7359\/files\/Zmd4Ry9HZ1N0bGhnWEcyWkNnUnVLdz09.webp?v=1768925019","url":"https:\/\/annizon.com\/en-ch\/products\/refracting-through-technologies-bodies-medical-technologies-and-norms-paperback","provider":"annizon.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}