Spare parts : organ replacement in American Society / / Renee C. Fox and Judith P. Swazey; with the assistance of Judith C. Watkins

• Autore: Fox Renee C (Renee Claire), <1928->
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, 1992
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xviii, 254 pages)
• Disciplina: 362.1/9795/00973
• Soggetto topico: Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc - Moral and ethical aspects - United States; Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc - Social aspects - United States; Heart, Artificial - History; Heart, Artificial - Moral and ethical aspects - United States
• Altri autori: SwazeyJudith P
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 1992.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-244) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION: REBUILDING PEOPLE -- I: Organ Transplantation: Patterns and Issues in the 1980s -- 1. Of Wonder Drugs, the Transplant "Boom," and Moratoria -- The "Advent" of Cyclosporine -- The Expansion of Organ Transplantation -- The Experiment-Therapy Status of Organ Transplantation -- A Multiplicity of Clinical Moratoria -- The Coming of FK 506 -- 2. Organ Transplantation as Gift Exchange -- Marcel Mauss' Gift-Exchange Paradigm -- Obligations to Give Organs -- Obligations to Receive Organs and Patients' Reservations About Accepting Them -- Obligations to Receive Organs and Surgeons' Reservations About Live Donations -- Obligations to Repay the "Gift of Life" and the "Tyranny of the Gift, -- 3. Alterations in the Theme of the Gift -- Who Are My Kin? Who Are My Strangers? Live-Donor Kidney Transplants -- The Debut of Live-Donor Liver and Lung Transplants -- Making a Live Donor: Bone Marrow Transplants -- Efforts to Increase Gifts of Life -- From Gifts of Life to Market Commodities? -- 4. Transplantation and the Medical Commons -- The Transplantation Commons -- Transplantation and the Medical Commons -- Transplantation, Medicine, and the Societal Commons -- II: The Jarvik- 7 Artificial Heart Experiment -- 5. Desperate Appliance: A Short History of the Jarvik-7 Artificial Heart -- Cast of Characters and Their Locales -- Prologue -- Act I: The Development of the Jarvik Heart -- Act II: Barney Clark's Heart -- Act III: The Move to Humana -- Act IV: The Experiment Continues -- Entr'acte: The Artificial Heart as a Bridge to Transplant -- Act IV: Continued -- Act V: Endings -- Epilogue -- 6. "Made in the U.S.A.": American Features in the Rise and Fall of the Jarvik-7 Artificial Heart -- American Places, Portraits, and Scenarios -- American Astronaut Imagery -- The American Land of Oz. ; Factors Shaping the American Features of the Artificial Heart Experiment -- Meanings of the Heart -- The Role of Mormonism -- Corporate Connections -- The Rise and Fall of Cold Fusion -- 7. Who Shall Guard the Guardians? -- Initiating Human Testing -- Jarvik- 7 Implants as Clinical Research -- The Gatekeepers -- Moratoria and Endings -- III: The Participant Observers: Final Journeys -- 8. Leaving the Field -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
• Sommario/riassunto: This study relates developments that have occurred in the field of organ transplantation during the 1980s and early 1990s, and the rise and fall of the popularity of the Jarvik-7 artificial heart during that period.
• Titolo autorizzato: Spare parts
• ISBN: 0-19-770864-1; 1-280-52630-0; 9786610526307; 0-19-975964-2; 1-4294-0756-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910821054303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oxford scholarship online.