dc.creator | Morrison, Daniel Ray | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-08-23T15:55:40Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-06-04 | |
dc.date.issued | 2012-12-06 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/etd-11282012-143550 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1803/14848 | |
dc.description.abstract | In this dissertation, I examine the social world of deep brain stimulation and its use in the treatment of people with movement disorders, including Parkinson's Disease, Essential Tremor, and Dystonia. Through ethnography, in-depth interviews, and document analysis, I track the biomedical, social, and interactive processes that lead patients to seek and accept deep brain stimulation treatment. I then follow patients as they learn to live with their devices, and track the way these devices impact relations with self and other. I also compare the use of this technology to cardiac pacemaker devices. I found that many patients integrate their device into self, making the technology transparent, mundane, and unremarkable. | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.subject | self | |
dc.subject | brain | |
dc.subject | society | |
dc.subject | symbolic interaction | |
dc.subject | medical sociology | |
dc.subject | body | |
dc.subject | embodiment | |
dc.subject | medical technology | |
dc.subject | science and technology | |
dc.title | Body, Self, Device: Nonhuman Objects and Human Identity | |
dc.type | dissertation | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Mark J. Bliton | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Steven J. Tepper | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | David J. Hesss | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Michael D. Bess | |
dc.type.material | text | |
thesis.degree.name | PHD | |
thesis.degree.level | dissertation | |
thesis.degree.discipline | Sociology | |
thesis.degree.grantor | Vanderbilt University | |
local.embargo.terms | 2013-06-04 | |
local.embargo.lift | 2013-06-04 | |
dc.contributor.committeeChair | Laura M. Carpenter | |