2023
DOI: 10.1111/maq.12818
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Technologies of care and the engineering imaginary: Two approaches to assistive device design for the Global South

Vaia Y. Sigounas

Abstract: Assistive devices serve as vectors for the ideals, judgments, and goals that their society of origin has towards people with disabilities. For some Ugandan inventors and prosthetists, familiarity with sociocultural norms and consistent feedback allow them to design prosthetic limbs as technologies of care that specifically meet the needs of Ugandans using these devices. In contrast, many biomedical engineers living in the United States rely on what I call the “engineering imaginary” to produce universalized fo… Show more

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