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Twice dead : organ transplants and the reinvention of death /
Tales about organ transplants appear in mythology and folk stories, and surface in documents from medieval times, but only during the past twenty years has medical knowledge and technology been sufficiently advanced for surgeons to perform thousands of transplants each year
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley ; Los Angeles ; London :
University of California Press,
[2002]
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| Colección: | California series in public anthropology ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preamble: Accidental Death 1
- Trauma 14
- The Procurement 17
- The Gift 23
- Death's Shadow 27
- 1. Boundary Transgressions and Moral Uncertainty 32
- Reanimation 54
- 2. Technology in Extremis 57
- Narrow Escapes 76
- 3. Locating the Moment of Death 78
- Jumping the Gun 101
- 4. Making the New Death Uniform 103
- Tragedy 127
- 5. Japan and the Brain-Death "Problem" 130
- Aggressive Harvesting 147
- 6. Technology as Other: Japanese Modernity and Technology 149
- Born of a Brain-Dead Mother 165
- 7. Prevailing against Inertia: An Interim Resolution to the Brain-Death Debate 167
- Becoming a Good Angel 190
- 8. Social Death and Situated Departures 191
- Disconcerting Movements 208
- 9. Imagined Continuities: On Becoming an Ancestor 209
- Memory Work 232
- 10. When Bodies Outlive Persons 235
- Procurement Anxiety 259
- 11. When Persons Linger in Bodies 263
- Transcendence through Music 288
- 12. The Body Transcendent 291
- A Court Order 310
- 13. The Social Life of Human Organs 315
- A Reliable Man 341
- An Unsatisfactory Intelligence 345
- 14. Revisiting Vivisection in a World Short of Organs 347
- A Dubious Definition of Death 363
- Reflections 365