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



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Autore: Sharp Lesley Alexandra Visualizza persona
Titolo: The transplant imaginary : mechanical hearts, animal parts, and moral thinking in highly experimental science / / Lesley A. Sharp Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2014]
©2014
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (236 p.)
Disciplina: 617.954
Soggetto topico: Ethnology - United States
Medical anthropology - United States
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc - Social aspects - United States
Soggetto non controllato: animals
bioengineering
black market
current debate
debates in science
designing implantable mechanical devices
determination
ethics
experimentation
fleshy organs from animals for human use
health care
human body
human form
human parts
human suffering
life and death
marketing of organs
medicine
moral thinking
morality
organ donation
organ scarcity
organ transplant
organ transplantation
organs
scarcity
science
surgery
surgical
theoretical
treatment
xenotransplantation
Classificazione: SOC002000SOC000000MED022000
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Machine 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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. 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.  
Titolo autorizzato: The transplant imaginary  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-27796-1
0-520-95715-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910807630203321
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