Transplant Imaginary Mechanical Hearts, Animal Parts, and Moral Thinking in Highly Experimental Science

Name: Transplant Imaginary Mechanical Hearts, Animal Parts, and Moral Thinking in Highly Experimental Science
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ISBN: 9780520277984

ISBN-10: 0520277988

ISBN-13: 9780520277984

Edition: 2014

Authors: Lesley A. Sharp

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In The Transplant Imaginary, author Lesley Sharp explores the extraordinarily surgically successful realm of organ transplantation, which is plagued worldwide by the scarcity of donated human parts, a quandary that generates ongoing debates over the marketing of organs as patients die waiting for replacements. These widespread anxieties within and beyond medicine over organ scarcity inspire seemingly futuristic trajectories in other fields. Especially prominent, longstanding, and promising domains include xenotransplantation, or efforts to cull fleshy organs from animals for human use, and bioengineering, a field peopled with "tinkerers" intent on designing implantable mechanical devices,…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 11/2/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 236
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Moral Neutrality in Experimental Science



The Reconfigured Body of the Transplant Imaginary



Hybrid Bodies and Animal Science: The Promises of Interspecies Proximity



Artificial Life: Perfecting the Mechanical Heart



Temporality and Social Desire in Anticipatory Science


Conclusion: The Moral Parameters of Virtuous Science


Notes


References


Index