Cyborg Babies

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Robbie Davis-Floyd is a Research Fellow at the University of Texas, Austin. She is the author of Birth as anAmerican Rite of Passage (1992) and co-editor of Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge: Cross-CulturalPerspectives (1997). Joseph Dumit is an NIMH Research Fellow in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is the co-editor of Cyborgs andCitadels: Anthropological Interventions in EmergingSciences, Technologies and Medicines (1997) and is assistant editor of Culture, Medicine and Society.

Joseph Dumit and Robbie Davis-Floyd , Introduction: Cyborg Babies: Children of the Third Millenium Part One: CYBORG CONCEPTIONS One Matthew Schmidt and Lisa Jean Moore , Constructing a Good Catch, Picking a Winner The Development of Technosemen and the Deconstruction of the Monolithic Male Two Charis M. Cussins , Quit Sniveling, Cryo-Baby. We'll Work Out Which One's Your Mama! Three Steven Mentor , Witches, Nurses, Midwives, and Cyborgs IVF, ART, and Complex Agency in the World of Technobirth Four Janet Isaacs Ashford , Natural Love Part Two: THE TECHNO-FETUS Five Lisa M. Mitchell and Eugenia Georges , Baby's First Picture The Cyborg Fetus of Ultrasound Imaging Six Emily Martin , The Fetus as Intruder Mother's Bodies and Medical Metaphors Seven Rayna Rapp , Refusing Prenatal Diagnosis The Uneven Meanings of Bioscience in a Multicultural World Eight David B. Chamberlain , Babies Don't Feel Pain A Century of Denial in Medicine Part Three: MACHINES AND MOTHERS: POSTMODERN PREGNANCY, CYBORG BIRTH Nine Elizabeth F. S. Roberts , Native Narratives of Connectedness Surrogate Motherhood and Technology Ten Joseph Dumit with Sylvia Sensiper , Living with the Truths of DES Toward an Anthropology of Facts Eleven Elizabeth Cartwright , The Logic of Heartbeats Electronic Fetal Monitoring and Biomedically Constructed Birth Twelve Robbie Davis-Floyd , From Technobirth to Cyborg Babies Reflections on the Emergent Discourse of a Holistic Anthropologist Part Four: TECHNO-TOYS AND TECHNO-TOTS Thirteen Jennifer L. Croissant , Growing Up Cyborg Developmental Stories for Postmodern Children Fourteen Mizuko Ito , Inhabiting Multiple Worlds Making Sense of SimCity 2000 in the Fifth Dimension Fifteen Sherry Turkle , Cyborg Babies and Cy-Dough-Plasm Ideas about Self and Life in the Culture of Simulation Sixteen Anne Hill , Children of Metis: Beyond Zeus the Creator Paganism and the Possibilities for Embodied Cyborg Childraising