1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910463578903321

Autore

Jacob Marie-Andrée <1975->

Titolo

Matching organs with donors [[electronic resource] ] : legality and kinship in transplants / / Marie-Andrée Jacob

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2012

ISBN

1-283-89883-7

0-8122-0650-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (228 p.)

Collana

Contemporary Ethnography

Disciplina

617.9/54

Soggetti

Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc - Israel

Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc - United States

Donation of organs, tissues, etc - Israel

Donation of organs, tissues, etc - United States

Organ donors - Israel

Organ donors - United States

Kidneys - Transplantation - Israel

Kidneys - Transplantation - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-210) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction: Matching -- Chapter 1. Ethnography Through Transplants and Vice Versa -- Chapter 2. Consent Forms, Differences, and Indifference -- Chapter 3. Kinship as Template -- Chapter 4. Committee-ing ''Family Donations'' -- Chapter 5. The Evidence of Altruism -- Chapter 6. Exits and Promises: Signatures, Loopholes, and Swaps -- Conclusion: Kin Relations, Legal Relations, and Transplants -- Appendix A: Living Organ Transplant Directive -- Appendix B: National Organ Transplant Act (NOTA) (1984 Pub. L. 98-507) United States Code Title 42, Chapter 6A, Subchapter II, Part H -- NOTES -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments

Sommario/riassunto

While the traffic in human organs stirs outrage and condemnation, donations of such material are perceived as highly ethical. In reality, the line between illicit trafficking and admirable donation is not so sharply



drawn. Those entangled in the legal, social, and commercial dimensions of transplanting organs must reconcile motives, bureaucracy, and medical desperation. Matching Organs with Donors: Legality and Kinship in Transplants examines the tensions between law and practice in the world of organ transplants-and the inventive routes patients may take around the law while going through legal processes. In this sensitive ethnography, Marie-Andrée Jacob reveals the methods and mindsets of doctors, administrators, gray-sector workers, patients, donors, and sellers in Israel's living kidney transplant bureaus. Matching Organs with Donors describes how suitable matches are identified between donor and recipient using terms borrowed from definitions of kinship. Jacob presents a subtle portrait of the shifting relationships between organ donors/sellers, patients, their brokers, and hospital officials who often accept questionably obtained organs. Jacob's incisive look at the cultural landscapes of transplantation in Israel has wider implications. Matching Organs with Donors deepens our understanding of the law and management of informed consent, decision-making among hospital professionals, and the shadowy borders between altruism and commerce.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910704923903321

Autore

Khan Ferdous

Titolo

Nuclear fragmentation energy and momentum transfer distributions in relativistic heavy-ion collisions / / by Ferdous Khan; principal investigator, Govind S. Khandelwal

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Norfolk, Virginia : , : Department of Physics, College of Sciences, Old Dominion University

Hampton, VA : , : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Langley Research Center, , [1989]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 140 pages) : illustrations

Collana

NASA CR ; ; 185501

Soggetti

Collisions

Energy levels

Fragmentation

Heavy ions

Relativistic particles

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed December 17, 2013).

"August 1989."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 108-113).



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910220031303321

Titolo

Alleys of your mind : augmented intelligence and its traumas / / edited by Matteo Pasquinelli

Pubbl/distr/stampa

meson press

Soggetti

Cybernetics

Artificial intelligence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

The pigeon in the machine : the concept of control in behaviorism and cybernetics / Ana Teixeira Pinto -- Error correction : Chilean cybernetics and Chicago's economists / Adrian Lahoud -- The trauma machine : demos, immersive technologies and the politics of simulation / Orit Halpern -- Outing artificial intelligence : reckoning with Turing tests / Benjamin Brattton -- Thinking beyond the brain : educating and building from the standpoint of extended cognition / Michael Wheeler -- Late capitalism and the scientific image of man : technology, cognition, and culture / Jon Lindblom --- Instrumental reason, algorithmic capitalism, and the incomputable / Luciana Parisi -- Revolution backwards : functional realization and computational implementation / Reza Negarestani -- Loops of augmentation : bootstrapping, time travel, and consequent futures / Ben Woodard -- Brain theory between utopia and dystopia : neuronormativity meets the social brain / Charles T. Wolfe -- Post-trauma : towards a new definition? / Catherine Malabou -- Appendix.

Sommario/riassunto

"What does thinking mean in the age of Artificial Intelligence? How is big-scale computation transforming the way our brains function? This collection discusses these pressing questions by looking beyond instrumental rationality. Exploring recent developments as well as examples from the history of cybernetics, the book uncovers the positive role played by errors and traumas in the construction of our contemporary technological minds." -- Page [4] of cover.