Doctoral Dissertation Research: Everyday Prosthesis: Stories of Ampuation, Technology, and Body

博士论文研究：日常假肢：截肢、技术和身体的故事

• 批准号: 0924105
• 负责人: John Evans
• 金额: $ 0.92万
• 依托单位: University of California-San Diego
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-01 至 2011-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0924105&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Everyday; Prosthesis

This Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement grant--by the Science, Technology & Society (STS) program at NSF--supports research on the everyday experiences and meanings of prosthetics to the people who use them. The image of an amputee using a prosthetic body part has inspired much thought about the parallels between bodies and machines in modernity, but scholars have yet to explore if these ideas are borne out in the actual experiences of amputees. This dissertation research collects stories of and reflections on recovery and rehabilitation after amputation in order to elaborate on theories that employ prosthesis as a metaphor for human relations with technology and the meaning of being human. The project asks how medical procedure and assistive technology can influence ideas about the body and the self and then apply these insights to issues in technology studies, disability studies, and bioethics. Data are collected in the form of 50 in-depth interviews with people who began using an artificial limb in the last 6 years. To capture a range of experiences, a diverse group of amputees will be interviewed, including men and women and those who have lost limbs due to trauma and disease. The presentation and analysis of these narratives will focus on how amputees come to interpret their bodies and prosthetic limbs and how these interpretations reflect or reinvent popular thinking about the body. The final dissertation thesis and related publications will contribute to the literature a varied account of amputation and recovery. The results should be of interest to scholars of medicine and rehabilitation, as well as to amputees and their families. Further, the dissertation will explore how the experience of amputation and use of prostheses can inform STS theories about body, self, and disability.

这个博士论文研究改进补助金-由科学，技术社会（STS）在NSF计划-支持研究假肢的日常经验和意义的人谁使用它们。截肢者使用假肢的形象激发了人们对现代身体和机器之间相似性的思考，但学者们还没有探索这些想法是否在截肢者的实际经历中得到证实。本论文的研究收集了截肢后恢复和康复的故事和思考，以阐述使用假肢作为人类与技术关系的隐喻和做人的意义的理论。该项目询问医疗程序和辅助技术如何影响有关身体和自我的想法，然后将这些见解应用于技术研究，残疾研究和生物伦理学中的问题。数据是以50个深度访谈的形式收集的，访谈对象是在过去6年中开始使用假肢的人。 为了获得一系列的经验，将采访各种各样的截肢者，包括男子和妇女以及那些因创伤和疾病而失去肢体的人。 这些叙述的呈现和分析将集中在截肢者如何解释他们的身体和假肢，以及这些解释如何反映或重塑关于身体的流行思想。 最后的论文和相关出版物将有助于文献截肢和恢复的各种帐户。医学和康复学者以及截肢者及其家属应该对研究结果感兴趣。此外，论文将探讨如何截肢和使用假肢的经验可以告知STS理论的身体，自我和残疾。