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social science subjects > sociology > sociology of health, illness and the body > body (sociology) > cyborgs
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cyborgs  

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  • The mixture of human and machine where biology and technology become inextricably linked. Haraway has argued that the new biotechnologies have unseated old Western dualisms such as mind/body, self/other and male/female so that there are no certainties about nature, the body or self left. [Source: The Sage Dictionary of Health and Society; Cyborgs]

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