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Prosthetized Rebirth Prosthetized Rebirth
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Ghost in the Machine Ghost in the Machine
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Deeply Embodied Technologies Deeply Embodied Technologies
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Transforming Bodies Transforming Bodies
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Transforming Minds and Brains Transforming Minds and Brains
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Transforming the Prosthetic Imaginary Transforming the Prosthetic Imaginary
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Phantom-Prosthetic Relations Phantom-Prosthetic Relations
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Phantom Proliferation Phantom Proliferation
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Overview of the Book Overview of the Book
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1 Introduction: Ghost in the Machine
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Published:January 2014
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Abstract
This book examines the link between phantom limb pain and prosthetic innovation—a relationship between ghosts and machines that has at times been pleasant, accommodating, and mutually beneficial. It considers how prosthetization has transformed the bodies, selves, and identities of individuals who have survived amputation; how the promises and realizations of revolutionary forms of techno-corporeality shape our expectations from prosthetic technologies and from bodies, especially the “disfigured” or “functionally impaired”; and how corporeal ideology inform understandings of phantom peculiarities and influence efforts to legitimate the work being done on phantom limb syndrome. The book also explores how the phantom–prosthetic relations unfolded in the context of the modernization of amputation, including the maturation of the prosthetic industry and the development of a collaborative association between amputation surgery and prosthetic science.
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