This piece was originally posted as a Birmingham Law School Research Blog Post This post summarises a paper by Joseph T F Roberts – Taking Embodiment Seriously in Public Policy and Practice: Adopting a Procedural Approach to Health and Welfare’ – recently published in the Monash Bioethics Review. The idea that public policy and medical … Continue reading “Taking Embodiment Seriously in Public Policy and Practice: Adopting a Procedural Approach to Health and Welfare”
Category: phenomenology
Embodiment and the Everyday Cyborg: Philosophical and Sociological Approaches
In this post we consider how to study the embodiment of everyday cyborgs using phenomenological and sociological methods Although we often identify the locus of the self in the mind, what our body is like can have important effects on who we are. Our body is the means through which we perceive the world and … Continue reading “Embodiment and the Everyday Cyborg: Philosophical and Sociological Approaches”