LEADER 04011nam 22006971 450 001 9910452454303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-520-27796-1 010 $a0-520-95715-6 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520957152 035 $a(CKB)2550000001128788 035 $a(EBL)1463405 035 $a(OCoLC)860924023 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001037483 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12385460 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001037483 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11042868 035 $a(PQKB)11113032 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001535519 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1463405 035 $a(OCoLC)966841737 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse52271 035 $a(DE-B1597)518991 035 $a(OCoLC)1058529426 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520957152 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1463405 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10777408 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL529422 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001128788 100 $a20130816h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe transplant imaginary $emechanical hearts, animal parts, and moral thinking in highly experimental science /$fLesley A. Sharp 210 1$aBerkeley :$cUniversity of California Press,$d[2014] 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (236 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-520-27798-8 311 $a1-299-98171-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aMachine generated contents note: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Moral Neutrality in Experimental Science -- 1. The Reconfigured Body of the Transplant Imaginary -- 2. Hybrid Bodies and Animal Science: The Promises of Interspecies Proximity -- 3. Artificial Life: Perfecting the Mechanical Heart -- 4. Temporality and Social Desire in Anticipatory Science -- Conclusion: The Moral Parameters of Virtuous Science -- Notes -- References -- Index. 330 $aIn 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. Especially prominent, longstanding, and promising domains include xenotransplantation, or efforts to cull fleshy organs from animals for human use, and bioengineering, a field peopled with "tinkerers" intent on designing implantable mechanical devices, where the heart is of special interest. Scarcity, suffering, and sacrifice are pervasive and, seemingly, inescapable themes that frame the transplant imaginary. Xenotransplant experts and bioengineers at work in labs in five Anglophone countries share a marked determination to eliminate scarcity and human suffering, certain that their efforts might one day altogether eliminate any need for parts of human origin. A premise that drives Sharp's compelling ethnographic project is that high-stakes experimentation inspires moral thinking, informing scientists' determination to redirect the surgical trajectory of transplantation and, ultimately, alter the integrity of the human form.   606 $aEthnology$zUnited States 606 $aMedical anthropology$zUnited States 606 $aTransplantation of organs, tissues, etc$xSocial aspects$zUnited States 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEthnology 615 0$aMedical anthropology 615 0$aTransplantation of organs, tissues, etc.$xSocial aspects 676 $a617.954 700 $aSharp$b Lesley Alexandra$0937996 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910452454303321 996 $aThe transplant imaginary$92486001 997 $aUNINA