A kind of disassembled and reassembled, postmodern collective and personal self: Agency and the Insulin pump

This article examines the interaction between the Insulin pump, a biotechnology device used to treat type one diabetes, and the human to whom it is attached. It asks what kinds of selves the pump-human entanglement constitutes, and how these subjectivities shift the lived experience of agency. This...

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Main Author: Berk, Elizabeth (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage Publ. [2018]
In: Journal of material culture
Year: 2018, Volume: 23, Issue: 4, Pages: 448-458
Further subjects:B Auto-ethnography
B type 1 diabetes
B Agency
B Insulin pump
B United States
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