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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 about the extraordinary power of these technologies to liberate and fundamentally alter the human body, mind, and spirit. Through intensive observation at a prosthetic clinic, interviews with key researchers and clinicians, and an analysis of historical and contemporary psychological and medical literature, she examines the modernization of amputation and exposes how medical understanding about phantom limbs has changed from the late-19th to the early-21st century. Crawford interrogates the impact of advances in technology, medicine, psychology and neuroscience, as well as changes in the meaning of limb loss, popular representations of amputees, and corporeal ideology. Phantom Limb questions our most deeply held ideas of what is normal, natural, and even moral about the physical human body.

MEDICAL / General. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Physical. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General. --- Phantom limb. --- Prosthesis. --- Limb, Phantom --- Limbs, Phantom --- Phantom limb pain --- Phantom limbs --- Phantom pain --- Amputees --- Body schema --- Pain --- Perceptual disorders --- Prostheses --- Prosthetics --- Moulage in medicine --- Surgery, Plastic --- Artificial organs --- Biomedical materials --- Implants, Artificial --- Psychology

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Amputation, Prosthesis Use, and Phantom Limb Pain An Interdisciplinary Perspective Edited by Craig D. Murray For the millions of patients adjusting to life with one or more missing limbs, adaptation involves an intricate network of physical, psychological, social, and existential factors. It is with this complex scenario in mind that Amputation, Prosthesis Use, and Phantom Limb Pain: An Interdisciplinary Perspective has been developed. Unlike other books that deal exclusively with one or another of these topics, this volume unites the three to return the experiential to what is often treated in the literature—and too often in the clinic—as a solely medical condition. Written by top specialists in areas ranging from psychology and neuroscience to biomedical engineering and computer science (and including material applicable to those with congenital missing limbs as well as to amputees), this volume provides up-to-date knowledge with wide appeal to a variety of professional readers. In addition, the book’s accessibility ensures that practitioners working in teams understand each other’s work as well as client needs. Among the leading-edge topics: Ethical and medico-legal issues in providing assistive technology. Psychosocial assessment of adaptation to amputation and prosthesis use. Congenital limb deficiencies and experiences of prosthesis use. Prothesis use relating to the formation and maintenance of romantic relationships. Biopsychosocial approaches to postoperative pain. Phenomenology of phantom limb experience and prosthesis use. Relationship between coping style and phantom limb pain. Virtual-reality treatments for phantom limb pain. Must reading for clinical and health psychologists, neuropsychologists, prostheticians, orthopedists, neurologists, professionals in rehabilitation and rehabilitative medicine, and designers of assistive technologies, Amputation, Prosthesis Use, and Phantom Limb Pain is dedicated to the goal of encouraging proper fit and alignment—not only between patients and devices, but between healing professionals and their clients.

Medicine & Public Health. --- Rehabilitation Medicine. --- Health Psychology. --- Biomedical Engineering. --- Nursing. --- Medicine. --- Rehabilitation. --- Biomedical engineering. --- Psychology, clinical. --- Médecine --- Soins infirmiers --- Réadaptation --- Génie biomédical --- Amputation --- Amputation. --- Phantom limb. --- Prosthesis. --- Phantom Limb --- Artificial Limbs. --- Pain --- Complications. --- rehabilitation. --- therapy. --- Amputation -- Complications. --- Amputation -- Rehabilitation. --- Artificial limbs. --- Pain -- Therapy. --- Prosthesis --- Phantom limb --- Neurologic Manifestations --- Signs and Symptoms --- Perceptual Disorders --- Therapeutics --- Orthopedic Equipment --- Sensation --- Artificial Organs --- Prostheses and Implants --- Orthopedic Procedures --- Surgical Equipment --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Nervous System Physiological Processes --- Neurobehavioral Manifestations --- Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms --- Surgical Procedures, Operative --- Psychophysiology --- Equipment and Supplies --- Nervous System Diseases --- Artificial Limbs --- Rehabilitation --- Diseases --- Nervous System Physiological Phenomena --- Psychological Phenomena and Processes --- Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms --- Musculoskeletal and Neural Physiological Phenomena --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Phenomena and Processes --- Surgery & Anesthesiology --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Occupational Therapy & Rehabilitation --- Surgery - General and By Type --- Complications --- Limb, Phantom --- Limbs, Phantom --- Phantom limb pain --- Phantom limbs --- Phantom pain --- Prostheses --- Prosthetics --- Rehabilitation medicine. --- Surgery. --- Health psychology. --- Amputees --- Body schema --- Perceptual disorders --- Moulage in medicine --- Surgery, Plastic --- Artificial organs --- Biomedical materials --- Implants, Artificial --- Orthopedic surgery --- Psychology --- Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering. --- Clinical nursing --- Nurses and nursing --- Nursing process --- Care of the sick --- Medicine --- Surgery, Primitive --- Clinical engineering --- Medical engineering --- Bioengineering --- Biophysics --- Engineering --- Health psychology --- Health psychology, Clinical --- Psychology, Clinical health --- Psychology, Health --- Salutogenesis --- Clinical psychology --- Medicine and psychology --- Medicine, Rehabilitation --- Rehabilitation medicine --- Medicine, Physical --- Therapy.