Strange Harvest Organ Transplants, Denatured Bodies, and the Transformed Self

Name: Strange Harvest Organ Transplants, Denatured Bodies, and the Transformed Self
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ISBN: 9780520247864

ISBN-10: 0520247868

ISBN-13: 9780520247864

Edition: 2006

Authors: Lesley A. Sharp

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Strange Harvest illuminates the wondrous yet disquieting medical realm of organ transplantation by drawing on the voices of those most deeply involved: transplant recipients, clinical specialists, and the surviving kin of deceased organ donors. In this rich and deeply engaging ethnographic study, anthropologist Lesley Sharp explores how these parties think about death, loss, and mourning, especially in light of medical taboos surrounding donor anonymity. As Sharp argues, new forms of embodied intimacy arise in response, and the riveting insights gleaned from her interviews, observations, and descriptions of donor memorials and other transplant events expose how patients and donor families…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 10/4/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 322
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Strange Harvest


The Ideological Underpinnings of Organ Transfer


Studying Transplantation in American Contexts



We are the Dead Men: Mind Over Matter


A Most Peculiar Death


Reconstructing Donor Histories


Body Economies



Memory Work: Public and Private Representations of Suffering, Loss, and Redemption


Recipient Suffering and Renewal


Honoring the Dead in Safe, Public Places


The Private Lives of Donor Kin



Public Encounters as Subversive Acts


Bureaucratic Constraints on Social Desire


The Ties That Bind


Claiming the Donor Body



Human Hybridity: Scientific Longing and the Dangers of Difference


Dangerous Miracles


Professional Desires to Cultivate Nature


Denatured Bodies and Transformed Selves


Nature's Body


Epilogue


Notes


Glossary


References


Index