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blog.uehiro.ox.ac.uk/2026/10/some-reflections-on-prosthetic-bodies-the-human-the-human-like-and-the-monstrous

Some reflections on “Prosthetic Bodies: The Human, the Human-Like, and the Monstrous”

Prosthetics can make a body seem less than human, more than human or simply different, and historians say even "normal" anatomy was partly invented from Greek statues. A philosophy workshop at Oxford unpacks what counts as a natural body and why medicine was never as objective as it claimed.

— via Practical Ethics, Alberto Giubilini


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