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Author Crawford, Cassandra.

Title Phantom limb : amputation, embodiment, and prosthetic technology / Cassandra Crawford.

Publication Info. New York : New York University Press, [2014]

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Series Biopolitics: medicine, technoscience, and health in the 21st century
Biopolitics (New York, N.Y.)
Summary "Phantom limb pain is one of the most intractable and merciless pains ever known--a pain that haunts appendages that do not physically exist, often persisting with uncanny realness long after fleshy limbs have been traumatically, surgically, or congenitally lost. The very existence and "naturalness" of this pain has been instrumental in modern science's ability to create prosthetic technologies that many feel have transformative, self-actualizing, and even transcendent power. In Phantom Limb, Cassandra S. Crawford critically examines phantom limb pain and its relationship to prosthetic innovation, tracing the major shifts in knowledge of the causes and characteristics of the phenomenon. Crawford exposes how the meanings of phantom limb pain have been influenced by developments in prosthetic science and ideas about the extraordinary power of these technologies to liberate and fundamentally alter the human body, mind, and spirit. Through intensive observation at a prosthetic clinic, interviews with key researchers and clinicians, and an analysis of historical and contemporary psychological and medical literature, she examines the modernization of amputation and exposes how medical understanding about phantom limbs has changed from the late-19th to the early-21st century. Crawford interrogates the impact of advances in technology, medicine, psychology and neuroscience, as well as changes in the meaning of limb loss, popular representations of amputees, and corporeal ideology. Phantom Limb questions our most deeply held ideas of what is normal, natural, and even moral about the physical human body. Cassandra S. Crawford is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Northern Illinois University and a faculty associate in Women's Studies and in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Studies."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note Print version record.
Contents Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: Ghost in the Machine; 2. Characterizing Phantoms: Features of Phantom Limb Syndrome; 3. From Pleasure to Pain: Accounting for the Rise and Fall in Phantom Pain; 4. Phantoms in the Mind: The Psychogenic Origins of Ethereal Appendages; 5. Phantoms in the Brain: The Holy Grail of Neuroscience; 6. Phantom-Prosthetic Relations: The Modernization of Amputation; 7. Conclusion: Authenticity and Extinction; Notes; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; About the Auhor.
Language English.
Subject Prosthesis.
Phantom limb.
Amputation.
Amputees.
Phantom Limb
Amputation, Surgical
Amputees
Prostheses and Implants
Prothèses.
Membre fantôme.
Amputation.
Personnes amputées.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Physical.
MEDICAL -- General.
MEDICAL -- Surgery -- General.
Amputees
Amputation
Phantom limb
Prosthesis
Phantom
Phantomschmerz
Prothese
Other Form: Print version: Crawford, Cassandra. Phantom limb 9780814789285 (DLC) 2013029822 (OCoLC)844308843
ISBN 9780814764824 (electronic bk.)
0814764827 (electronic bk.)
9780814789285
0814789285
9780814760123
0814760120
Standard No. AU@ 000054196805
DEBBG BV042794380
DEBSZ 421231009
DEBSZ 431588368
DEBSZ 449405079
AU@ 000067253194

 
    
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