Transplant Fictions A Cultural Study of Organ Exchange /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Russell, Emily (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Σειρά: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
• Θέματα: Literature-History and criticism.; Fiction.; British literature.; Literary History.; British and Irish Literature.

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 celebrate...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.