Crowley-Matoka Domesticating Organ Transplant

Familial Sacrifice and National Aspiration in Mexico
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7463-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Crowley-Matoka, Megan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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