{"product_id":"the-connector-alexandra-middleton-9781478033745","title":"The Connector: Living with Experimental Neuroprosthetics","description":"In \u003ci\u003eThe Connector\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003ci\u003eThe Connector\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alexandra Middleton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1478033746\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781478033745\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/12\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 290\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.24lbs","brand":"Alexandra Middleton","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48442975289599,"sku":"9781478033745","price":119.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a9cf71f5-d0cd-4730-a60d-86499081902d.jpg?v=1777201010","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-connector-alexandra-middleton-9781478033745","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}