Modern orthopaedic prosthetics imitate biological organs or their functions, interacting with the body of amputees, and are designed and manufactured corporately. Thus, prosthetics constitute a privileged vantage point to witness the intermingling of society and nature, as well as how biosocial relations and institutions are understood, negotiated, and constituted. We develop methodologies of apprenticeship with a worldwide corporate leader in the development and manufacture of non-invasive orthopaedics, to explore the biosocial relations, the tropes, and the institutions involved in the research and development of lower-limb prosthetics. The ethnography reveals how understandings of biosocial relations are influenced by and simultaneously permeate corporate institutional practices, constituting specific organic tropes, such as the corporate skin. This trope reflects the continuous negotiation of understandings of what the skin is and what it does, of the biosocial relations associated with it, of the history of the company, its products, and how its institutional practices are being shaped by these understandings.

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公司皮肤：假肢研究与开发中的生物社会关系，对立和机构

现代骨科假肢模仿生物器官或其功能，与截肢者的身体相互作用，并共同设计和制造。因此，假肢构成了一个特权的有利位置，可以见证社会与自然的融合，以及如何理解，协商和构成生物社会关系和机构。我们与无创骨科开发和制造领域的全球公司领导者一起开发学徒制方法，以探索生物社会关系，特质以及参与下肢假肢研究和开发的机构。人种志揭示了对生物社会关系的理解是如何受到并同时渗透到公司制度实践中的，这些现象构成了特定的有机特质，例如公司的皮肤。