Dissertation Research: Ghost in the Machine: Phantom - Prosthetic Relations

对技术进步与疾病的性质和分类之间的关系感兴趣，这项科学和技术研究论文研究改进补助金将研究假肢科学和被称为幻肢综合征（PLS）的医学现象的创新。从广义上讲，这项工作将构成肢解现代化的社会文化和历史分析，对用于替换因截肢而失去的身体部位的技术的扩展和复杂性感兴趣，以及在分类、因果假设和治疗选择方面对PLS的修改。这个定性项目将采用一些研究方法，包括半结构化，开放式访谈；历史档案资料分析；1930年至今幻肢医学文献内容分析审查在线资源和文件；以及对主流媒体和另类媒体的回顾。NSF基金将支持对主要研究人员的访谈，包括PL的理论化、特征化、流行、疼痛和治疗等方面的工作，访谈将亲自进行。我们将在每个现场参观实验室空间，观察工作并采访其他相关人员。这个项目的学术价值包括对肢解的社会文化分析。肢解是一个在临床文献中被广泛讨论的问题，在残疾文献中也有涉及，并且在最近一波对经验或生活描述感兴趣的具体化理论中也有提及。值得注意的是，没有对肢解和身体技术的交叉进行理论通报的社会文化检查。此外，这项工作有助于医学社会学的分支学科。医学社会学认真对待科学、技术和医学在当代认识论和本体论关注的生产中的作用。将健康、康复、健康、疾病和死亡的文化、话语、制度和/或关系方面理论化和调查的项目被认为是对该领域的核心贡献。拟议的工作整合了与部分损失、部分替换和生活偏见相关的知识、技术和技术的检查。更广泛地说，近年来，社会科学家已经开始从身体出发并从身体出发进行理论化。这个项目试图将这些问题与科学技术的研究直接联系起来。因此，这项工作将有助于：1)身体作为对象和探究场所的分析重要性；2)身体技术与社会身体和个人身体（在这种情况下是截肢者）的理论并置。此外，该项目对生物技术结合的认识论、本体论、伦理/道德和政治问题很敏感，并直接涉及多方面的技术恐惧症/亲技术鸿沟。实际上，关于肢解、幻肢综合征和假肢科学的知识的综合和分析：1)将为该领域的未来研究提供信息；2)可能对截肢者和其他人来说是一种有价值的资源。

Interested in the relationship between technological advance and the nature and classification of disease, this Science and Technology Studies Dissertation Research Improvement Grant will examine innovations in prosthetic science and the medical phenomenon known as phantom limb syndrome (PLS). Broadly, this work will constitute a socio-cultural and historical analysis of the modernization of dismemberment, interested in the expansion and sophistication of technologies used to replace parts of the body lost to amputation, and the modification of PLS in terms of classification, causal assumptions and treatment options. This qualitative project will employ a number of research methods including semi-structured, open-ended interviews; analysis of historical and archival data; content analysis of medical literature published on phantom limb from 1930 to the present; review of online resources and documents; and review of mainstream and alternative media. NSF funds will support interviews with key researchers working on aspects of PL including aspects of theorizing, characterizing, prevalence, pain, and treatment, will be conducted in person. Efforts will be made at each site to visit lab space, observe work and interview other relevant persons. The intellectual merit of this project includes a socio-cultural analysis of dismemberment. Dismemberment is an issue extensively discussed in the clinical literature, implicated in the disability literature, and alluded to within the recent wave of theories of embodiment interested in experiential or lived accounts. Notably absent is a theoretically informed socio-cultural examination of the intersection of dismemberment and technologies of the body. Further, this work contributes to the sub-discipline of medical sociology. Medical sociology takes seriously the role of sciences, technologies and medicines in the production of contemporary epistemological and ontological concerns. Projects that theorize and investigate the cultural, discursive, institutional and/or relational aspects of health, healing, wellness, illness and death, are considered core contributions to the field. The proposed work integrates an examination of the knowledges, techniques, and technologies relevant to part-loss, part-replacement, and lived partiality. More broadly, in recent years, social scientists have begun to theorize both about and from the body. This project attempts to connect these concerns directly with the study of science and technology. Thus, this work will contribute to: 1) the analytic import of the body as an object and site of inquiry; and 2) the theoretical juxtaposition of technologies of the body with both the social body and individual bodies (in this case-amputees). In addition, this project is sensitive to epistemological, ontological, ethical/moral and political concerns regarding bio-technological joinings and engages directly with the multifaceted techno phobic/philic divide. Practically, the synthesis and analysis of knowledge concerning dismemberment, phantom limb syndrome and prosthetic science: 1) will function to inform future research in this area; and 2) may be valuable as a resource to amputees and others.