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The Connector

Living with Experimental Neuroprosthetics

Alexandra Middleton (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2026
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-3867-2 (ISBN)

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In The Connector, Alexandra Middleton examines how the frontiers of experimental medical science are always the everyday lived experiences for patients and their families and communities. Drawing on fieldwork and interviews conducted in Swedish labs and clinics that develop neuromusculoskeletal protheses, as well as in the homes of patients enrolled in clinical trials as they live with these new forms of prosthetics, Middleton shows how patients’ sensory experiences and domestic worlds become key spaces of scientific knowledge production that extend well beyond their visits to the lab. Through storytelling that centers the patients’ embodied knowledge and labor, along with the scientists who work closely with them, Middleton depicts how “connection” entails inhabiting the liminal space between ideation and materialization, a space punctuated not only by breakthroughs and breakdowns, but the slow work of the everyday. The Connector critically examines where biomedical innovation, scientific discovery, and the “cutting edge” come from in ways that foreground the importance of the domestic spaces in which experimental science take place.

Alexandra Middleton is Assistant Professor of Medical Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen.

Prelude: Only a Machine ix
Introduction 1
Part I. Producing and Sustaining a Connector
1. Domestic Lived Science 21
2. Experimental Labor 49
3. The Fourth Bottleneck 77
Interlude 1. Limited Edition 99
Part II. Living and Dwelling with a Connector
4. Phantom Signals 107
5. Reverse-Engineering Touch 151
6. Sense Making; Meaning Making 151
Interlude 2. Lunar Thai 171
7. Flickering Embodiments 175
8. Breakdown 207
Conclusion 225
Epilogue 235
Acknowledgments 237
Notes 243
References 249
Index 267

Erscheint lt. Verlag	12.5.2026
Reihe/Serie	Experimental Futures
Zusatzinfo	18 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	445 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Physiotherapie / Ergotherapie ► Orthopädie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Technik ► Medizintechnik
	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-10	1-4780-3867-5 / 1478038675
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-3867-2 / 9781478038672
Zustand	Neuware