The transplant imaginary : mechanical hearts, animal parts, and moral thinking in highly experimental science /
Sharp, Lesley Alexandra.
The transplant imaginary : mechanical hearts, animal parts, and moral thinking in highly experimental science / Lesley A. Sharp. - Berkeley : University of California Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource (xiv, 221 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographies and index.
-- Moral neutrality in experimental science -- The reconfigured body of the transplant imaginary -- Hybrid bodies and animals science: the promises of interspecies proximity -- Artificial life: perfecting the mechanical heart -- Temporality and social desire in anticipatory science -- The moral parameters of virtuous science.
In The Transplant Imaginary, author Lesley Sharp explores the extraordinarily surgically successful realm of organ transplantation, which is plagued worldwide by the scarcity of donated human parts, a quandary that generates ongoing debates over the marketing of organs as patients die waiting for replacements. These widespread anxieties within and beyond medicine over organ scarcity inspire seemingly futuristic trajectories in other fields.
9781299981713 9780520957152
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.--Social aspects--United States.
Ethnology--United States.
Medical anthropology--United States.
Medical anthropology.
Ethnology.
Electronic Books.
RD120 / .T736 2014
The transplant imaginary : mechanical hearts, animal parts, and moral thinking in highly experimental science / Lesley A. Sharp. - Berkeley : University of California Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource (xiv, 221 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographies and index.
-- Moral neutrality in experimental science -- The reconfigured body of the transplant imaginary -- Hybrid bodies and animals science: the promises of interspecies proximity -- Artificial life: perfecting the mechanical heart -- Temporality and social desire in anticipatory science -- The moral parameters of virtuous science.
In The Transplant Imaginary, author Lesley Sharp explores the extraordinarily surgically successful realm of organ transplantation, which is plagued worldwide by the scarcity of donated human parts, a quandary that generates ongoing debates over the marketing of organs as patients die waiting for replacements. These widespread anxieties within and beyond medicine over organ scarcity inspire seemingly futuristic trajectories in other fields.
9781299981713 9780520957152
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.--Social aspects--United States.
Ethnology--United States.
Medical anthropology--United States.
Medical anthropology.
Ethnology.
Electronic Books.
RD120 / .T736 2014