Spare Parts

Organ Replacement in American Society

AvRenee C. Fox,Judith P. Swazey

Inbunden, Engelska, 1992

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Beskrivning

Spare Parts centres on the developments that have occurred in the field of organ transplantation during the 1980s and early 1990s, and on the rise and fall of the Jarvik-7 artificial heart in that period. It is vividly written in a narrative ethnographic style. The interconnected stories of organ transplantation and the artificial heart are recounted in an interpretive framework that attributes their most enduring significance to the triple themes of uncertainty, gift exchange, and the allocation of scarce material and non-material resources, and to the way that they open questions of life and death, identity and solidarity.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1992-11-26
Mått:162 x 244 x 26 mm
Vikt:558 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780195076509

Utforska kategorier

Transplantationskirurgi inom Medicin
Hjärt- och kärlsjukdomar inom Medicin

Recensioner i media

The book is an encyclopedic source ... This is an important book which warrants close study and thought by all those who share an in-depth or even cursory interest in the area of replacement therapy or organ transplantation.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: Rebuilding people; PART I: ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION: Patterns and issues in the 1980s; Of wonder drugs, the transplant boom, and moratoria; Organ transplantation as gift exchange; Alterations in the theme of the gift; Transplantation and the medical commons; PART II: THE JARVIK-7 ARTIFICIAL HEART EXPERIMENT: Desperate Appliance: A short history of the development and use of the Jarvik-7 artificial heart; "Made in the U.S.A.": American features in the rise and fall of the Jarvik-7 artificial heart; Who shall guard the guardians?; PART III: THE PARTICIPANT OBSERVERS: Final Journeys; Leaving the field; Notes; Bibliography; Index.