Author: Channell, David F.
Title: The Vital Machine: A Study of Technology and Organic Life
Description: New York / Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1991. orig.boards. 24x16cm, xi,192 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: Introduction: The Mechanical & the Organic; The Mechanical World View: The Clockwork Universe; Mechanical Organisms: From Automata to Clockwork Humans; The Organic World View: From Magic to Vitalism; Organic Machines: Technology as Plant; The Emergence of the Bionic World View; The Vital Machine; Conclusion: Ethics in the Age of the Vital Machine.

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