...This chapter examines the features of phantom limb syndrome and how corporeal ideology influenced efforts to legitimate the work being done on phantom limb syndrome. It first considers the ambiguity that has characterized the medical literature on phantom limb syndrome and goes on to discuss how...

... 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...

..., penetrating phantoms, dreamt phantoms, and disposal phantoms. Finally, it discusses phantom limb syndrome in the psychiatric/psychological and medical literature and the proliferation of phantoms as support for the psychological organ, along with the medicalization of phantom limb syndrome. amputee ation...

...This chapter examines how phantoms have driven transformations within the field of neuroscience, within the bodies, minds, and brains of amputees, and between bodies and prosthetic technologies. It first historicizes and contextualizes phantom limb syndrome, mainly by situating ethereal appendages...

... the debate between practitioners and researchers about the nature of phantom–prosthetic relations, a debate that was engendered by two apparently contradictory findings: prostheses both provoked phantom limbs and cured phantom limb syndrome. It then analyzes phantom limbs and prostheses in order to show how...

... by evaluating a variety of treatment options for phantom limb pain before concluding with a discussion of the role of the etiology of phantom limb syndrome in the reduced prevalence of phantom pain. language of pain McGill Pain Questionnaire MPQ pain medicine biomedical legitimation biomedical...

... “affiliative objects ” object relations phantom animation prosthetic animation biopower phantom shape shifting protean nature phantom–prosthetic relations phantom limb syndrome biopolitics amputation phantom penis scientific authenticity transsexuality apotemnophilia authentic amputation...