Transplant Fictions A Cultural Study of Organ Exchange /

• Main Author: Russell, Emily (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
• Subjects: 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...