Transplant Fictions

A Cultural Study of Organ Exchange

AvEmily Russell

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

Del i serien Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine

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Beskrivning

Removing an organ from one (typically dead) body and placing it in another living body challenges our most foundational ideas about boundaries between self and other, individual and social identity, life and death, health and illness.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-05-07
Mått:148 x 210 x 22 mm
Vikt:528 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
Antal sidor:310
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783030121341

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Emily Russell is an Associate Professor of English at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, USA. She is the author of Reading Embodied Citizenship: Disability, Narrative, and the Body Politic (2011).

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction.- 2. Corpse to Cadaver: From Body Snatching to Body Worlds.- 3. Making the Lifelike Corpse.- 4. Mortal Signs: Transplantation and the Invention of Brain Death.- 5. “The Gift of Life”: Sentiment and the Family.- 6. Murdering Hands and Mad Doctors: The Horrors of Organ Exchange.- 7. Kidneyville: Organ Exchange at the Margins.- 8. Conclusion: Speculative Medicine, Speculative Fictions.