Body hacking is one of the topics that has caught my eye the most in this class. It's something very new that borders both medical and DIY researchers who want to expand the abilities of the human body.
The paper will explore how body hacking is used to modify the body focusing on either the disabled and helping them with their lost senses or abilities or normal people adding extra senses and improving abilities How the medical field of hacking is focuses on the first and the DIY researchers tend to focus on the latter.
As medical research and technology is becoming more advanced, more and more of it is being used by bodyhackers, people who enhance and change their bodies instead of curing diseases.Traditional medicine changes our bodies in what we see now as normal:vaccines, plastic surgery, and even prosthetic. As we continue to advance should we stop and ask.
What should be legal? Are patients turning into consumers and how far can and should people go with body hacking, is there a limit?
Technology, mass media, and governments all play a roll in this. Just how far can you take this technology where are these people who partake in the research aiming for? Is there an overall goal within the community.
Chris,
ReplyDeleteI can see a few things coming together here, and you seem to have a good idea of how to discuss bodyhacking in terms of disability. I think your challenge will be finding articles that can cover the ethics/particulars of technology and disability (prosthetics, wheelchairs, etc could be useful here).