The first systematic exploration of the multifaceted relationship between human bodies and machines in classical antiquity.

This innovative and wide-ranging volume is the first systematic exploration of the multifaceted relationship between human bodies and machines in classical anti

In opposition to an essentialist conceptualization, the social construct of the human body in literature can be analyzed and described by means of effective met

A collection of papers that introduces the notion of the technosoma (techno body) into discussions on the representations of the body in classical antiquity. By

"Medicine is itself a type of technology, involving therapeutic tools and substances, and so one way to write the history of medicine is as the application of d