IEET Cyborg Life Project

IEET advisor Peter Houghton and IEET Executive Director James Hughes are
writing a book, tentatively titled Cyborg Life: The Reality of Living
With Artificial Parts. Peter is an artificial heart device recipient
(LVAD) and the founder of several charities in the UK working on the
technologies and needs of people with artificial organs. He has been
collecting narratives of people with heart assist devices, insulin pumps
and similar devices, and in this book we intend to describe the current
experiences of people with implanted medical devices, and the public
policy agenda to ensure universal access to safe, life enhancing devices
in the future.

The website - with resources and a blog - is here:

http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/cyborglife

We will be posting drafts of Cyborg Life's chapters for comment and
revision. Please send me suggestions of resources you think should be
included there. Hopefully we can make this a collaborative and
multimedia project that helps improve the lives of people who need
bio-implants, and fight for the right of everyone to have access to safe
bio-implants in the future.

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James Hughes Ph.D.
Executive Director, Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
http://ieet.org
Editor, Journal of Evolution and Technology
http://jetpress.org
Public Policy Studies, Trinity College
http://internet2.trincoll.edu/facProfiles/Default.aspx?fid=1004332
Williams 229B, Trinity College
300 Summit St., Hartford CT 06106
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