Phantom Limb: Amputation, Embodiment, and Prosthetic Technology
NYU Press, 2014, 314 pages
The title of this important book gives only the slightest hint of the extraordinarily complex account that Crawford has produced about the biopolitics of limb absence and other forms of acquired limb loss, the meaning of phantom sensation and phantom pain, and the work …
A new crop of books has arrived and they need to be reviewed! We are now asking reviewers to complete their pieces within four months of receiving a copy of the book. If you can write your review more quickly, that’s great, but if you don’t think you can manage to finish it in four months, please don’t volunteer. We …
War and Embodied Memory: Becoming Disabled in Sierra Leone
Ashgate Press, 2012
274pp., £60.00, hardcover
Berghs’ ethnography explores the construction of, and resistance to, the disability identity in Sierra Leone in the aftermath of both a violent civil war and the attempts at social reconciliation and reintegration that followed. In this context, the concept of disability …
In March 2004, after being hired by UMBC, I attended a meeting at Walter Reed Army Medical Center with a colleague from my new department and several military and civilian clinicians. There we discussed the specific and the vague challenges that faced the increasing number of US military service-members who were coming into the …