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245 14 a| The transplant imaginaryh| [electronic resource] :b| mechanical hearts, animal parts, and moral thinking in highly experimental science /c| Lesley A. Sharp.;

260 a| Berkeley :b| University of California Press,c| [2014];

300 a| xiv, 221 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 23 cm;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

506 a| Available only to authorized users.;

520 a| " In The Transplant Imaginary, author Lesley Sharp explores the extraordinarily surgically successful realm of organ transplantation, which is plagued worldwide by the scarcity of donated human parts, a quandary that generates ongoing debates over the marketing of organs as patients die waiting for replacements. These widespread anxieties within and beyond medicine over organ scarcity inspire seemingly futuristic trajectories in other fields. Especially prominent, longstanding, and promising domains include xenotransplantation, or efforts to cull fleshy organs from animals for human use, and bioengineering, a field peopled with "tinkerers" intent on designing implantable mechanical devices, where the heart is of special interest. Scarcity, suffering, and sacrifice are pervasive and, seemingly, inescapable themes that frame the transplant imaginary. Xenotransplant experts and bioengineers at work in labs in five Anglophone countries share a marked determination to eliminate scarcity and human suffering, certain that their efforts might one day altogether eliminate any need for parts of human origin. A premise that drives Sharp's compelling ethnographic project is that high-stakes experimentation inspires moral thinking, informing scientists' determination to redirect the surgical trajectory of transplantation and, ultimately, alter the integrity of the human form. "--c| Provided by publisher.;

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The transplant imaginary mechanical hearts, animal parts, and moral thinking in highly experimental science / Lesley A. Sharp.

Author/creator	Sharp, Lesley Alexandra
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	Berkeley : University of California Press, [2014]
Description	xiv, 221 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects	Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.--Social aspects. --United States. Ethnology--United States. Medical anthropology--United States.

Abstract	" In The Transplant Imaginary, author Lesley Sharp explores the extraordinarily surgically successful realm of organ transplantation, which is plagued worldwide by the scarcity of donated human parts, a quandary that generates ongoing debates over the marketing of organs as patients die waiting for replacements. These widespread anxieties within and beyond medicine over organ scarcity inspire seemingly futuristic trajectories in other fields. Especially prominent, longstanding, and promising domains include xenotransplantation, or efforts to cull fleshy organs from animals for human use, and bioengineering, a field peopled with "tinkerers" intent on designing implantable mechanical devices, where the heart is of special interest. Scarcity, suffering, and sacrifice are pervasive and, seemingly, inescapable themes that frame the transplant imaginary. Xenotransplant experts and bioengineers at work in labs in five Anglophone countries share a marked determination to eliminate scarcity and human suffering, certain that their efforts might one day altogether eliminate any need for parts of human origin. A premise that drives Sharp's compelling ethnographic project is that high-stakes experimentation inspires moral thinking, informing scientists' determination to redirect the surgical trajectory of transplantation and, ultimately, alter the integrity of the human form. "-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2013024442
ISBN	9780520277960 (hardback)
ISBN	9780520277984 (paper)

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