Phantom Limb: Amputation, Embodiment, and Prosthetic Technology (Biopolitics, 16)
Phantom Limb: Amputation, Embodiment, and Prosthetic Technology (Biopolitics, 16) Phantom Limb: Amputation, Embodiment, and Prosthetic Technology (Biopolitics, 16) OTHER ARTICLES Phantom limb pain is one of the most intractable and merciless pains ever known--a pain that haunts appendages that do not physically exist, often persisting with uncanny realness long after fleshy limbs have been traumatically, surgically, or congenitally lost. The very existence and naturalness of this pain has been instrumental in modern science's ability to create prosthetic technologies that many feel have transformative, self-actualizing, and even transcendent power. In Phantom Limb, Cassandra S. Crawford critically examines phantom limb pain and its relationship to prosthetic innovation, tracing the major shifts in knowledge of the causes and characteristics of the phenomenon.Crawford exposes how the meanings of phantom limb pain have been influenced by developments in prosthetic science and ideas...