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The transplant imaginary : mechanical hearts, animal parts, and moral thinking in highly experimental science / Lesley A. Sharp.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, (c)2014.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 221 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781299981713
  • 9780520957152
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • RD120 .T736 2014
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Contents:
-- 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.
Subject: 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.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

-- 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.

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