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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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Sage Publ.
[2018]
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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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