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IImplanted Digital Prosthetics

  • 1st Edition - December 1, 2019
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Maxime Derian
  • Language: English

Orthotic Digital Devices in the Human Body explores the once science-fiction concept of implanting a digital device to provide healthcare information. Since the first pacemaker… Read more

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Description

Orthotic Digital Devices in the Human Body explores the once science-fiction concept of implanting a digital device to provide healthcare information. Since the first pacemakers were surgically implanted in the human body 60 years ago, there has been a significant increase in the different types of digital devices added to the body for eHealth purposes. This books provides a synthetic point-of-view of the different possibilities offered by this tools.

Key features

  • Proves that implanted digital devices that provide health care are no longer a science fiction topic
  • Presents the significant increase in the different types of digital devices added to the body
  • Provides a synthetic view of the different possibilities offered by these tools

Readership

Scholars, journalists, patients, readers curious about enhanced humanity and emerging therapies

Table of contents

1. Wearing a computerized prosthesis: a situation that is less and less exceptional

2. Living with a therapeutic active implanted device: the example of the pacemaker

3. Innovation and Evolution of Health Policies

4. Typology of currently existing computerized implants

5. The in and out: distinction between functionality and invasivenes

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: December 1, 2029
  • Language: English

About the author

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Maxime Derian

Maxime Derian is a researcher at Panthéon-Sorbonne University – Paris 1 (CETCOPRA), France, and a member of the Observatoire des mondes numériques en sciences humaines (OMNSH), France. He is an anthropologist of techniques, specializing in the domain of social uses and digital tools, especially concerning e-health. His research focuses on the hybridization of the human body with computerized machines.
Affiliations and expertise
Researcher, ISCC (CNRS) and Associate Researcher, CETCOPRA, University of Paris 1, Pantheon Sorbonne