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Phantom limb : amputation, embodiment, and prosthetic technology

By: Publication details: New York, NY : New York University Press, 2014ISBN:
  • 0814760120
  • 9780814789285
  • 9780814760123
Subject(s): 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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