What is the risk of substituting technology for lost body function?
A) It leads to loss of employment for office workers
B) It doesn't interrogate the mechanistic view of the body
C) It keeps the focus on personal failure or ineptitude
D) None of the above

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The articles argues, "In terms of disability, technology can be seen to reproduce some of the characteristics of medicine. While it seems highly desirable to substitute technology for lost function, this seductive solution is underpinned by a mechanistic view of the body, long associated with the "medical model" (Freund & McGuire 1991, pp. 203-29; Petersen 1994, pp. 20-1; Seymour 1989, chapter 4; White 1996, pp. 38-9). In this perspective, the body is viewed in terms of a machine, parts of which may malfunction or wear out. Identification of the problem and isolation of the part prepares the way for remedial intervention. Just as the plumber turns off the water at the meter to work on the kitchen tap, the doctor also assumes that work on a part of the body will have no more than temporary impact on the body as a whole. As the medical model reduced the body to a machine, so too may the technology-machine model compromise and reduce the body."

What Is the Risk of Substituting Technology for Lost Body