The Connector
Living with Experimental Neuroprosthetics
$68.35
- Paperback
290 pages
- Release Date
12 May 2026
Summary
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 worl…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781478038672 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1478038675 |
| Author: | Alexandra Middleton |
| Publisher: | Duke University Press |
| Imprint: | Duke University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 290 |
| Release Date: | 12 May 2026 |
| Weight: | 562g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
| Series: | Experimental Futures |
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Critics Review
“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. The Connector 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
“The Connector 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 Horizon Work: At the Edges of Knowledge in an Age of Runaway Climate Change
Alexandra Middleton
Alexandra Middleton is Assistant Professor of Medical Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen.
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