Willow Brugh
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Hello, my name is Willow and I'm an undergraduate student in sociology going for my honors. For this thesis I am addressing various online communities with the following vignettes. You can read my introduction to your community here.
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Due to a birth defect Joe is missing his right hand and forearm. He spent his childhood and mid-teens like this, but now has the opportunity to purchase a prosthesis. Many options are available, ranging in appearance and ability. Joe can choose to have a limb that looks and acts as if it were his through biology and genetics, or one that is obviously not his whether due to simplicity or complexity of ability.
Possible Follow-Up Questions for Vignette 1:
• What option should he choose, if any, and why? What should the ability and appearances of a chosen prosthetic be?
• What are the positives and negatives of such a choice?
• Why do you feel this option is preferable over the others?
• What about a person’s physical capabilities makes them human, if anything?
• Why are limits important to humans? Is it part of the human condition?
• What is the difference between being different and being disabled?
• In one of the options, Joe has the choice of having a temperature-responsive prosthetic arm. The technology would determine how hot or cold something is perceived to be. Could you say something about this reliance upon an “outside” source?
• Is the appearance or the capability more important and why?
• Is someone who has willfully advanced themselves beyond what is “normal” still human?
Also, if you would like to respond, please fill out my Consent Form
before doing so, otherwise I cannot use your input. Thank you!
Due to a birth defect Joe is missing his right hand and forearm. He spent his childhood and mid-teens like this, but now has the opportunity to purchase a prosthesis. Many options are available, ranging in appearance and ability. Joe can choose to have a limb that looks and acts as if it were his through biology and genetics, or one that is obviously not his whether due to simplicity or complexity of ability.
Possible Follow-Up Questions for Vignette 1:
• What option should he choose, if any, and why? What should the ability and appearances of a chosen prosthetic be?
• What are the positives and negatives of such a choice?
• Why do you feel this option is preferable over the others?
• What about a person’s physical capabilities makes them human, if anything?
• Why are limits important to humans? Is it part of the human condition?
• What is the difference between being different and being disabled?
• In one of the options, Joe has the choice of having a temperature-responsive prosthetic arm. The technology would determine how hot or cold something is perceived to be. Could you say something about this reliance upon an “outside” source?
• Is the appearance or the capability more important and why?
• Is someone who has willfully advanced themselves beyond what is “normal” still human?