Megan Crowley-Matoka

Domesticating Organ Transplant

Familial Sacrifice and National Aspiration in Mexico

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Megan Crowley-Matoka is Assistant Professor of Medical Humanities and Bioethics at Northwestern University.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 151mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 463g
• ISBN-13: 9780822360674
• ISBN-10: 0822360675
• Artikelnr.: 42803486

Autorenporträt

Megan Crowley-Matoka is Assistant Professor of Medical Humanities and Bioethics at Northwestern University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction  1
Part I. Giving Kidneys (Or Not)
1. Living Organ Donation, Bioavailability, and Ethical Domesticity  33
2. Cadaveric Organ Donation, Biounavailability, and Slippery States  65
Part II. Getting Kidneys (Or Not)
3. Being Worthy of Transplant, Embodying Transplant's Worth  109
4. The Unsung Story of Posttransplant Life  147
Part III. Framing Transplantation
5. Gifts, Commodities, and Analytic Icons in the Anthropological Lives of
Organs  187
6. Scientists, Saints, and Monsters in Transplant Medicine  225
Coda 261
Notes  267
References  285
Index  307