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Prologue : Perdita's story -- 1. The body as subject -- 2. Our cyborg selves, and other modern tales -- 3. Visible ruptures : the art of living with lack -- 4. Body basics : living with a stoma -- 5. The feminine in question -- 6. Replaceable parts : the end of natural life -- 7. Conclusion : necessity's children.

Surface Tensions is an expansive, yet intimate study of how people remake themselves after catastrophic bodily change--the loss of limbs, the loss of function, the loss or replacement of organs. Against a sweeping cultural backdrop of art, popular culture, and the history of science and medicine, Manderson uses narrative epistemology based on in-depth interviews with over 300 individuals to show how they re-establish the coherence of their bodies, identities, and biographies. In addition to offering important new insights into the care, rehabilitation, and rehabituation of post-trauma patients.