Phantom limb: amputation, embodiment, and prosthetic technology
Crawford, C S
Phantom limb: amputation, embodiment, and prosthetic technology - New York New York University Press 2014
This book examines phantom limb pain and its relationship to prosthetic innovation. Contents include: characterizing phantoms - features of phantom limb syndrome; from pleasure to pain - accounting for the rise and fall in phantom pain; phantoms of the mind - the psychogenic origins of ethereal appendages; phantoms in the brain - the holy grail of neuroscience; phantom-prosthetic relations - the modernisation of amputation.
0814760120 9780814789285 9780814760123
Phantom limb: amputation, embodiment, and prosthetic technology - New York New York University Press 2014
This book examines phantom limb pain and its relationship to prosthetic innovation. Contents include: characterizing phantoms - features of phantom limb syndrome; from pleasure to pain - accounting for the rise and fall in phantom pain; phantoms of the mind - the psychogenic origins of ethereal appendages; phantoms in the brain - the holy grail of neuroscience; phantom-prosthetic relations - the modernisation of amputation.
0814760120 9780814789285 9780814760123