Category: Artificial organs

• Bionic man (London Museum, 01/2013)

  BIONIC MAN @ LONDON SCIENCE MUSEUM. Created for a Channel 4 documentary (01/2013) to prove just how closely technology can emulate the human body, Rex – short for “robotic exoskeleton” – has been put together by the Shadow robotics company using artificial limbs and organs borrowed from the laboratories of leading scientists from as far…

  BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY – The Living Body

  March 14, 2013

  Artificial limbs, Artificial organs, Bionic body, medical enhancement, Techniques and technologies

  artificial organs and limbs, bionic body

• Reconstruction/ Augmentation of the HUMAN BODY

  HISTORY OF THE HUMAN BODY: FROM RECONSTRUCTION TO AUGMENTATION The non-reconstructed human body inscribed in early-Christianity was considered as an untouchable God’s creation, so was strictly forbidden its reconstruction. Then, the social and religious order has progressively allowed the reconstruction to the condition this latter was inscribed within the following dichotomy, between normal and pathological.…

  BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY – The Living Body

  March 12, 2013

  Art, Artificial limbs, Artificial organs, Bionic body, Brain-Machine Interface, medical enhancement, medical reconstruction, Techniques and technologies