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IEET > Life > Implants > J. Hughes > Advisors > Peter Houghton

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IEET Cyborg Life Project


Posted: Mar 17, 2007


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.

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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Thank you for your strength and devotion. We need people like yourself to stand up and take a stand. Just think of the people that could benefit from a bionic ear, eye or arm/leg. Like say, our troops that are hurt. We need them affordable and available to everyone.



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