... 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...

...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...

...This concluding chapter explores how, after the turn of the twenty-first century, phantom–prosthetic relations went awry despite the fact that ghosts and machines have never been more intimate. Using the concept of authenticity as a rhetorical frame, it considers biomedical knowledge on phantom...