A leg to stand on : prosthetics, metaphor, and materiality / Vivian Sobchack --
The vulnerable articulate : James Gillingham, Aimee Mullins, and Matthew Barney / Marquard Smith --
The physiology of art / Alphonso Lingis --
Stumped by genes : lingua gataca, DNA, and prosthesis / Lennard J. Davis --
The bug's body : a disappearing act / Gary Genosko --
On the subject of neural and sensory prostheses / Lisa Cartwright, Brian Goldfarb --
Disability, masculinity, and the prosthetics of war, 1945 to 2005 / David Serlin --
Naked / Elizabeth Grosz --
Visual technologies as cognitive prostheses : a short history of the externalization of the mind / Lev Manovich --
Prosthetists at 33-1/3 / Raiford Guins, Omayra Zaragoza Cruz --
Technology or the discourse of speed / David Wills --
Drawing machine : working through the materiality of Rauschenberg's Dante and Derrida's Freud / Joanne Morra.

"The thirteen original essays in The Prosthetic Impulse reassert the phenomenological, material and embodied nature of prosthesis without dismissing its metaphorical potential. They examine the historical and conceptual edge between the human and the posthuman - between flesh and its accompanying technologies. Rather than tracking the transformation of one into the other, these essays address this borderline instead, and the delicate dialectical situation in which it places us. Concentrating on this edge, the collection demonstrates how the human has been technologized and technology humanized."--Jacket.