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oapen-20.500.12657-478372021-04-15T00:43:29Z Chapter 10 Animal, Mechanical, and Me Haddow, Gill organ transplantation; organ donation; nonhuman animal donors bic Book Industry Communication::M Medicine::MB Medicine: general issues::MBF Medical bioinformatics Organ donation and transplantation is a largely successful treatment used to replace failing organs. However, donation rates have never met the demand for transplantable organs. Biomedical researchers are exploring alternative sources from nonhuman animal donors such as pigs; improved biotechnological solutions such as total artificial hearts; and 3D printed organs developed from the recipient’s own cells. These These solutions are in various stages of development, and they may or may not prove viable in terms of cost, functionality, and/or compatibility with the recipient’s body. In this chapter, I ask not about the viability of these proposed solutions, but rather, about the acceptability of the various technologies to potential recipients. Simply put: were these organ transplant alternatives to become available, would patients agree to them? Analyzing answers from focus group interviews and surveys, I use the responses to show that individuals imagine these various technologies as familiar or foreign, self or other, clean or dirty, and so on. People envisage that using different different different materials will certainly affect their bodies but also their subjectivities. New biotechnologies are raising questions about altering subjectivity through body modification and the answers to these questions demonstrate ambiguity. 2021-04-14T09:45:57Z 2021-04-14T09:45:57Z 2019 chapter https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/47837 eng application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International Bookshelf_NBK559943.pdf Oxford University Press The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Body and Embodiment b9501915-cdee-4f2a-8030-9c0b187854b2 6044e721-958d-421e-a7d2-3b73317a129e d859fbd3-d884-4090-a0ec-baf821c9abfd Wellcome 14 Oxford Wellcome Trust Wellcome open access
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Organ donation and transplantation is a largely successful treatment used to replace failing organs. However, donation rates have never met the demand for transplantable organs. Biomedical researchers are exploring alternative sources from nonhuman animal donors such as pigs; improved biotechnological solutions such as total artificial hearts; and 3D printed organs developed from the recipient’s own cells. These These solutions are in various stages of development, and they may or may not prove viable in terms of cost, functionality, and/or compatibility with the recipient’s body. In this chapter, I ask not about the viability of these proposed solutions, but rather, about the acceptability of the various technologies to potential recipients. Simply put: were these organ transplant alternatives to become available, would patients agree to them? Analyzing answers from focus group interviews and surveys, I use the responses to show that individuals imagine these various technologies as familiar or foreign, self or other, clean or dirty, and so on. People envisage that using different different different materials will certainly affect their bodies but also their subjectivities. New biotechnologies are raising questions about altering subjectivity through body modification and the answers to these questions demonstrate ambiguity.
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