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One of the view available books that cover amputation, prosthesis use, and phantom limb pain together, as the intricately related topics that they are
Offers a broad appeal to a varied readership through innovative exploration of the entire process surrounding limb loss and eventual recovery
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Reviews
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“The book consists of 12 chapters divided into 3 main sections that outline the multidisciplinary developments in the understanding and treatment of phantom limb pain. Each chapter is well written and provides references to key sources in the field. … This book is written for a variety of professionals and draws attention to the increased need for additional research in the area of phantom limb pain. The book has accomplished its goal of updating current understanding and identifying optimal, multidisciplinary treatments of phantom limb pain.” (Brian M. Kelly, Journal of the American Medical Association, December, 2010)Editors and Affiliations
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Dept. Psychology, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
Craig Murray
About the editor
Craig Murray is a Senior Lecturer at Lancaster University with research specialization in health, clinical psychology, and embodiment. He has more than 100 journal, book, and conference publications. These include papers in key Health Psychology (British Journal of Health Psychology; Health Informatics; Health Psychology; Health, Risk and Society; Qualitative Health Research, Psychology, Health and Medicine; Social Science and Medicine) Mental Health (Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease; Journal of Mental Health) and Rehabilitation (CyberPsychology and Behavior; Disability and Rehabilitation; International Journal on Disability and Human Development) journal titles. He has published widely on the topic of amputation, prosthesis use and phantom limb pain and led funded research programmes on these topics. This work has received international media attention (including television: Canadian Discovery Channel, Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio and television, and America’s CNN; and press: e.g. The Times, Australia’s Sydney Morning Herald, China’s People Daily, Russian Newsweek, New Yorker magazine). He is editor of ‘Psychological Scientific Perspectives on out-of-body experiences’ (2009, Nova Science Publishers, New York).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Amputation, Prosthesis Use, and Phantom Limb Pain
Book Subtitle: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
Editors: Craig Murray
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-87462-3
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-87461-6Published: 14 December 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-387-87463-0Due: 02 September 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-87462-3Published: 27 November 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 203
Topics: Surgery, Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering, Rehabilitation Medicine, Health Psychology, Nursing