Spare Parts

Organ Replacement in American Society

Inbunden, Engelska, 1992

Av Renee C. Fox, Judith P. Swazey, University of Pennsylvania) Fox, Renee C. (Annenberg Professor of the Social Sciences, Annenberg Professor of the Social Sciences, The Acadia Institute) Swazey, Judith P. (President, President, Ren?e C. Fox, Ren E. C. Fox

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Spare Parts centres on the developments that have occurred in the field of organ transplantation during the 1980s and early 1990s, and on the rise and fall of the Jarvik-7 artificial heart in that period. It is vividly written in a narrative ethnographic style. The interconnected stories of organ transplantation and the artificial heart are recounted in an interpretive framework that attributes their most enduring significance to the triple themes of uncertainty, gift exchange, and the allocation of scarce material and non-material resources, and to the way that they open questions of life and death, identity and solidarity.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum1992-11-26
Mått162 x 244 x 26 mm
Vikt558 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor272
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780195076509

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Transplantationskirurgi inom Medicin
Hjärt- och kärlsjukdomar inom Medicin
Medicinsk etik och läkaretik inom Medicin

Introduction: Rebuilding people; PART I: ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION: Patterns and issues in the 1980s; Of wonder drugs, the transplant boom, and moratoria; Organ transplantation as gift exchange; Alterations in the theme of the gift; Transplantation and the medical commons; PART II: THE JARVIK-7 ARTIFICIAL HEART EXPERIMENT: Desperate Appliance: A short history of the development and use of the Jarvik-7 artificial heart; "Made in the U.S.A.": American features in the rise and fall of the Jarvik-7 artificial heart; Who shall guard the guardians?; PART III: THE PARTICIPANT OBSERVERS: Final Journeys; Leaving the field; Notes; Bibliography; Index.