Our Own Devices: The Past and Future of Body Technology
- ISBN-10
- 0375407227
- ISBN-13
- 9780375407222
- Series
- Our Own Devices
- Category
- Science
- Pages
- 314
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Author
- Edward Tenner
Description
Looks at how the inventions we have created to help, protect, and ease our lives dramatically affect the human body and human life, examining the sometimes suprising ways in which technology has transformed the world.
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- 2005
- 311 pages
- Paperback
- Irish Academic Press
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