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The Connector : Living with Experimental Neuroprosthetics.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Middleton, Alexandra.
- Series:
- Experimental Futures Series
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (291 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- In The Connector, Alexandra Middleton examines the embodied life of experimental medicine through an ethnographic inquiry into the creation of neuromusculoskeletal prostheses and the everyday experience of patients living with them.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Prelude: Only a Machine
- Introduction
- Part I. Producing and Sustaining a Connector
- 1. Domestic Lived Science
- 2. Experimental Labor
- 3. The Fourth Bottleneck
- Interlude 1. Limited Edition
- Part II: Living and Dwelling with a Connector
- 4. Phantom Signals
- 5. Reverse-Engineering Touch
- 6. Sense-Making
- Meaning-Making
- Interlude 2. Lunar Thai
- 7. Flickering Embodiments
- 8. Breakdown
- Conclusion
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-4780-6223-1
- 9781478062233
- OCLC:
- 1583220562
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