Category: medical reconstruction

• Réflexion autour du corps hybride _ Oscar Pistorius

  OSCAR PISTORIUS, PARADIGME DU CORPS HYBRIDE L’homme réparé peut-il être égal au corps de l’homme normal ? Cette interrogation médico-éthique n’est pas sans rappeler les controverses des jeux Olympiques autour de l’athlète paralympique Oscar Pistorius _ coureur double amputé des jambes courant sur des prothèses en carbone surnommé « Blade runner » ou « l’homme…

  BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY – The Living Body

  April 6, 2013

  Artificial limbs, Bionic body, medical reconstruction, Philosophy, Sport

  Handicap, norms, reconstruction and augmentation; hybrid body, sport

• The SF Soccer team (2008)

    The matter in this painting was to express with a given group of individuals, eleven players on the field, lost limbs and reconstructed ones, following the range of possibilities plastic surgery practices offer: mechanical, myoelectrical, functional and/or aesthetical and bionic. The last “player” thanks to his numerous enhancements has already become a hybrid body,…

  BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY – The Living Body

  March 13, 2013

  Art, Artificial limbs, Bionic body, medical enhancement, medical reconstruction, Techniques and technologies, Uncategorized

• 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