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Domesticating Organ Transplant – Familial Sacrifice and National Aspiration in Mexico

Autor Megan Crowley–matoka
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 24 mar 2016
In "Domesticating Organ Transplant" Megan Crowley-Matoka examines the iconic power of kidney transplantation in Mexico, where the procedure is inexorably linked to the imaginings of individual and national identity, national pride, and the role of women in creating the Mexican state.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822360520
ISBN-10: 0822360527
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 161 x 237 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press

Cuprins

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

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