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An exploration of the increasingly pervasive role of technology in how children are brought into and raised in our society. From the uses of sperm banks, IVF, surrogacy, DES, ultrasound, amniocentesis, and epidurals to juvenile computer hackers, CYBORG BABIES discusses how contemporary children are immersed in technoculture.

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An exploration of the increasingly pervasive role of technology in how children are brought into and raised in our society. From the uses of sperm banks, IVF, surrogacy, DES, ultrasound, amniocentesis, and epidurals to juvenile computer hackers, CYBORG BABIES discusses how contemporary children are immersed in technoculture.
Autorenporträt
Robbie Davis-Floyd is a Research Fellow at the University of Texas, Austin. She is the author of Birth as anAmerican Rite of Passage (1992) and co-editor of Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (1997). Joseph Dumit is an NIMH Research Fellow in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is the co-editor of Cyborgs andCitadels: Anthropological Interventions in Emerging Sciences, Technologies and Medicines (1997) and is assistant editor of Culture, Medicine and Society.