Heinemann, Laura L.

Transplanting care : shifting commitments in health and care in the united states / Laura L. Heinemann. - New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource - Critical issues in health and medicine .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Early Navigations -- Chapter 2. Troubled Relations and Former Lives -- Chapter 3. Precarity and Policy -- Chapter 4. When Patients Are Also Caregivers -- Chapter 5. Conscripting Caregivers' Health (Or, When Caregivers Are Patients, Too) -- Chapter 6. Transformations in Home Life and High-Tech Health Care -- Chapter 7. Revealing and Reframing Kinship and Care -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author -- Available titles in the Critical Issues in Health and Medicine series.

Transplanting Care examines the daily lives of midwestern organ transplant patients and their caregivers, from pretransplant preparations through to the long posttransplant recovery. Drawing on scores of interviews with patients, relatives, and healthcare professionals, Laura L. Heinemann follows a variety of patients and loved ones as they undertake this difficult "transplant journey" while coping with a paucity of resources for caregiving.



9780813574448 9780813574455


Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.--United States.
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.--Psychological aspects.--United States
Medical care--United States.
Medical rehabilitation--United States.


Electronic Books.

QP89 / .T736 2016