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  title info:
    title: Transplant Fictions
    sub title: A Cultural Study of Organ Exchange
  name:
    name part: Russell, Emily.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: VII, 310 p. 1 illus. online resource.
  abstract: Removing an organ from one (typically dead) body and placing it in another living body challenges our most foundational ideas about boundaries between self and other, individual and social identity, life and death, health and illness. But despite these transgressions, organ transplant is a celebrated and relatively common procedure. Transplant Fictions brings together a diverse set of cultural representations to understand how we have overcome the profound ideological violations represented by organ exchange in order to reimagine the concept and practice as technological and moral victories. From the plots of horror stories and sci-fi novels to sentimental romances and feel-good media reports of stranger donation, this cultural study offers a nuanced portrait of the conceptual journey of organ exchange from strange and terrible to the "gift of life.".
  table of contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Corpse to Cadaver: From Body Snatching to Body Worlds -- 3. Making the Lifelike Corpse -- 4. Mortal Signs: Transplantation and the Invention of Brain Death -- 5. "The Gift of Life": Sentiment and the Family -- 6. Murdering Hands and Mad Doctors: The Horrors of Organ Exchange -- 7. Kidneyville: Organ Exchange at the Margins -- 8. Conclusion: Speculative Medicine, Speculative Fictions.
  note: by Emily Russell.
  subject:
    topic: Literature-History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: British literature
  subject:
    topic: Literary History
  subject:
    topic: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: British and Irish Literature
  classification: PN441-1009.5
  classification: 809
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
  identifier: 9783030121358
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12135-8
  record info:
    record creation date: 190417
    record change date: 20191027123041.0
    record identifier: 978-3-030-12135-8