.... The book examines the modernization of amputation and exposes how medical understanding about phantom limbs has changed from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries. It interrogates the impact of advances in technology, medicine, psychology and neuroscience, as well as changes...

... 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...

... of the human brain, including its ability to generate the most complex sensory experiences. It also discusses research on the sensory and motor homunculi, “mislocation phenomenon” or “referred sensation” in cases of major amputation, the causal role of cortical plasticity in phantom limb pain after major...

...This chapter examines how phantom–prosthetic relations unfolded in the context of the modernization of amputation, including the rapid state-sponsored expansion and maturation of the prosthetic industry and the collaboration between amputation surgery and prosthetic science. It first considers...

...’ longstanding cultural roles as “heroes” or “villains,” this superhero film ultimately positions cure as both violent and mandatory, suggesting little cultural tolerance for veterans’ ongoing disabilities (specifically, PTSD and amputations) and the resources that such conditions would require. Bringing...

... of amputation. It also looks at the case of phantom penis to demystify claims of scientific authenticity and goes on to explain how transsexuality and apotemnophilia have been dragged in the debate over what counts as authentic amputation. It concludes by reflecting on phantom endangerment in relation...