{"title":"Colin Webster","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eColin Webster\u003c\/strong\u003e offers readers insightful explorations into the relationship between technology and biology. His works, such as \u003cem\u003eTools and the Organism\u003c\/em\u003e, delve into the ways living systems interact with their environments, blending scientific inquiry with thoughtful analysis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eExpect a thoughtful, interdisciplinary approach that challenges conventional perspectives and invites reflection on the dynamic connections between organic life and artificial tools. Webster's writing engages those interested in philosophy, science, and the broader implications of technological integration.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"tools-and-the-organism-by-colin-webster-9780226828770","title":"Tools and the Organism","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe first book to show how the concept of bodily organs emerged and how ancient tools influenced conceptualisations of human anatomy and its operations.\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMedicine is itself a type of technology, involving therapeutic tools and substances, and so one can write the history of medicine as the application of different technologies to the human body. In \u003ci\u003eTools and the Organism\u003c\/i\u003e, Colin Webster argues that, throughout antiquity, these tools were crucial to broader theoretical shifts. Notions changed about what type of object a body is, what substances constitute its essential nature, and how its parts interact. By following these changes and taking the question of technology into the heart of Greek and Roman medicine, Webster reveals how the body was first conceptualised as an “organism”—a functional object whose inner parts were tools, or organa, that each completed certain vital tasks. He also shows how different medical tools created different bodies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWebster’s approach provides both an overarching survey of the ways that technologies impacted notions of corporeality and corporeal behaviours and, at the same time, stays attentive to the specific material details of ancient tools and how they informed assumptions about somatic structures, substances, and inner processes. For example, by turning to developments in water-delivery technologies and pneumatic tools, we see how these changing material realities altered theories of the vascular system and respiration across Classical antiquity. \u003ci\u003eTools and the Organism\u003c\/i\u003e makes the compelling case for why telling the history of ancient Greco-Roman medical theories, from the Hippocratics to Galen, should pay close attention to the question of technology.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47428361322732,"sku":"9780226828770","price":85.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780226828770.jpg?v=1774496870"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/colin-webster.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}