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Beschreibung
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.
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.
Über den Autor
Alexandra Middleton is Assistant Professor of Medical Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2026
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe
Rubrik: Sozialwissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781478038672
ISBN-10: 1478038675
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Middleton, Alexandra
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Alexandra Middleton
Erscheinungsdatum: 12.05.2026
Gewicht: 0,478 kg
Artikel-ID: 135103733