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The Connector : Living with Experimental Neuroprosthetics.

e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection 2026 Available online

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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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