Department of Sociology2024-11-0920161501-741910.1080/15017419.2015.11149642-s2.0-84948130398http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15017419.2015.1114964https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14288/11483This paper focuses on rehabilitation technology, more specifically robotic gait training conducted with a device called 'Lokomat' and its impact on the reproduction of bodily normality within the Turkish context. It draws upon an ethnographic study carried out in a major Turkish rehabilitation hospital and the analysis of the Lokomat's media representation in a health-related television programme. Interviews were conducted with 42 persons (11 medical staff, 2 non-medical staff, and 20 current and 9 former patients). The paper argues that the use of technology is shaped by the relevant sociocultural background. This background comprises both the specificities of the Turkish context more generally - such as its especially unwelcoming environment to the disabled body - and the discourses on the Lokomat more specifically, which create a miracle image of this device as facilitating walking. Thus, the Lokomat's presence deepens the normal/abnormal divide and reproduces it as walking/non-walking.RehabilitationJournal Article1745-3011391260100007N/A12831