Transplant fictions : a cultural study of organ exchange / Emily Russell.
2019
RD120.7 .R87 2019
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Title
Transplant fictions : a cultural study of organ exchange / Emily Russell.
Author
Russell, Emily, author.
ISBN
9783030121358 (electronic book)
3030121356 (electronic book)
9783030121341
3030121348
3030121356 (electronic book)
9783030121341
3030121348
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
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RD120.7 .R87 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification
617.9/54
Summary
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".
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 13, 2019).
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Palgrave studies in literature, science, and medicine.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Corpse to cadaver: from body snatching to 'body worlds'
Making the lifelike corpse
Mortal signs : transplantation and the invention of brain death
"The gift of life" : sentiment and the family
Murdering hands and mad doctors : the horrors of organ exchange
Kidneyville : organ exchange at the margins
Conclusion : speculative medicine, speculative fictions.
Corpse to cadaver: from body snatching to 'body worlds'
Making the lifelike corpse
Mortal signs : transplantation and the invention of brain death
"The gift of life" : sentiment and the family
Murdering hands and mad doctors : the horrors of organ exchange
Kidneyville : organ exchange at the margins
Conclusion : speculative medicine, speculative fictions.