Cognitive Prosthethics

Implanting a digital device to provide healthcare isn’t a science-fiction topic anymore. Since the first pacemakers had been surgically implanted in human body 60 years ago, there’s a significant increase of different types of digital devices added to the body for a eHealth purpose. Prosthetic Digital Devices in the Human Body provides a synthetic point of view of the different possibilities offered by these tools.

This book is a complete review of the field of computerized human prostheticIt benefitS from a research of 6 years and 2 post doctoral surveys conducted in quite renown institutions in France and Japan (Sorbonne University, CNRS, Tokyo Institute of technology)The book provides an interdisciplinary approach, combining anthropology, sociology, psychology and philosophy

1. Typology of Prostheses and Interface Modes between Humans and Digital Systems 2. Design and Distribution of Detachable Digital Prostheses 3. Cyber-utopianism 4. Living with Digital Prostheses 5. The Addictive Nature of Cognitive Prostheses 6. Cognitive Prosthetics and Social Engineering 7. Potential Pedagogical Impact of Massive and Excessive Use of Cognitive Prosthetics 8. Body and Technology through the Concepts of the Cyborg and the Enhanced Human 9. The Economic and Environmental Impact and the Sustainability of Computer-based Prosthetics