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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Faculty of Science and Health School of Nursing, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

    Pamela Gallagher BA Mod, DipStat, PhD (Senior Lecturer in Psychology) (Senior Lecturer in Psychology)

  2. Dublin Psychoprosthetics Group, Ireland

    Pamela Gallagher BA Mod, DipStat, PhD (Senior Lecturer in Psychology), Deirdre Desmond BA, DipStat, PhD (Lecturer) & Malcolm MacLachlan BSc, MSc, MA, PhD, DipBA, FPSI, FTCD, MRIA (Associate Professor) (Senior Lecturer in Psychology),  (Lecturer) &  (Associate Professor)

  3. Department of Psychology, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland

    Deirdre Desmond BA, DipStat, PhD (Lecturer) (Lecturer)

  4. School of Psychology Trinity College, University of Dublin, Ireland

    Malcolm MacLachlan BSc, MSc, MA, PhD, DipBA, FPSI, FTCD, MRIA (Associate Professor) (Associate Professor)

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Murray, C.D. (2008). Embodiment and Prosthetics. In: Gallagher, P., Desmond, D., MacLachlan, M. (eds) Psychoprosthetics. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-980-4_9

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