Phantom limb: amputation, embodiment, and prosthetic technology

By:

Crawford, C S

Publication details: New York New York University Press 2014ISBN:

0814760120
9780814789285
9780814760123

Subject(s):

Amputees

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Summary: 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.

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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.

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