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- A provocative rethinking of the intersection of death, technology, and disability, for a better life.
- About the Author: Candi K. Cann is Associate Professor at Baylor University, Director of Baylor in Korea, and the author of five books, including Virtual Afterlives, Dying to Eat, and The Routledge Handbook of Death and the Afterlife.
- 224 Pages
- Social Science, People with Disabilities
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A provocative rethinking of the intersection of death, technology, and disability, for a better life. We are all cyborgs, relying on technology--whether Alexa, a pacemaker, or a titanium knee--for our quotidian existence. In our deep connection to a technological world--from robots to augmented and virtual realities, metaverses and gaming--Candi Cann sees an opportunity, and good reason, to question our ideas about accessibility and inclusion. In augmented, she asks us to reconsider traditional notions of biology and death. Having relied on hearing aids from the age of four, Cann uses her experience to challenge readers to reconsider their assumptions about technologies and their role in life--and death. She also focuses on what it means that most of us are living longer with the intervention of medical technologies--and how a better understanding of our relationship to technology will grant us greater control as we age. Drawing on her life experience in Asia, the author also explains how cultural and religious views of machines and artificial intelligence vary globally--in particular, how a Western fear of machines contrasts with an animistic worldview that can see machines as conduits of care for others, embedding spiritual possibilities.About the Author
Candi K. Cann is Associate Professor at Baylor University, Director of Baylor in Korea, and the author of five books, including Virtual Afterlives, Dying to Eat, and The Routledge Handbook of Death and the Afterlife.Dimensions (Overall): 9.0 Inches (H) x 6.0 Inches (W)
Weight: .81 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 224
Genre: Social Science
Sub-Genre: People with Disabilities
Publisher: MIT Press
Format: Paperback
Author: Candi Cann
Language: English
Street Date: March 10, 2026
TCIN: 1004415939
UPC: 9780262051118
Item Number (DPCI): 247-41-9128
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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