{"product_id":"the-connector-living-with-experimental-neuroprosthetics-hardback-9781478033745","title":"The Connector; Living with Experimental Neuroprosthetics (Hardback) 9781478033745","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Connector\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eLiving with Experimental Neuroprosthetics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAlexandra Middleton (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781478033745\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 12 May 2026\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e290 pages, 18 illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.395 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e“In this beautifully written study, Middleton offers a vivid account of experimental limb replacement. An empathetic guide, she tacks expertly between a Swedish bioengineering lab and the quotidian, home-based lives of half a dozen extraordinary patients who have survived traumatically severe limb injury and loss. \u003ci\u003eThe Connector\u003c\/i\u003e proffers a superb melding of ethnographic and STS skill, insight, compassion, and wisdom.”—Lesley A. Sharp, Barbara C. And Helen C. Josefsberg '30 Professor of Anthropology, Barnard College, Columbia University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Connector\u003c\/i\u003e is an ethnographic masterpiece. Middleton’s bold rethinking of brain-science enigmas forges revelatory connections among the injured, neuro-prosthetics, and the intimate frontiers of human-machine life at home.”—Adriana Petryna, author of, \u003ci\u003eHorizon Work: At the Edges of Knowledge in an Age of Runaway Climate Change\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Connector\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003ci\u003eThe Connector\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePrelude: Only a Machine  ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction  1\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Producing and Sustaining a Connector\u003cbr\u003e 1. Domestic Lived Science  21\u003cbr\u003e 2. Experimental Labor  49\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Fourth Bottleneck  77\u003cbr\u003e Interlude 1. Limited Edition  99\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Living and Dwelling with a Connector\u003cbr\u003e 4. Phantom Signals  107\u003cbr\u003e 5. Reverse-Engineering Touch  151\u003cbr\u003e 6. Sense Making\u003cbr\u003e Meaning Making  151\u003cbr\u003e Interlude 2. Lunar Thai  171\u003cbr\u003e 7. Flickering Embodiments  175\u003cbr\u003e 8. Breakdown  207\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion  225\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue  235\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  237\u003cbr\u003e Notes  243\u003cbr\u003e References  249\u003cbr\u003e Index  267\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52591026929944,"sku":"9781478033745","price":71.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-connector-living-with-experimental-neuroprosthetics-hardback-9781478033745","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}