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A death retold : Jesica Santillan, the bungled transplant, and paradoxes of medical citizenship /
In February 2003, an undocumented immigrant teenager from Mexico lay dying in a prominent American hospital due to a stunning medical oversight - she had received a heart-lung transplantation of the wrong blood type. In the following weeks, Jesica Santillan's tragedy became a portal into the co...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©2006.
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| Colección: | Studies in social medicine.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : chronicles of an accidental death / Keith Wailoo, Julie Livingston and Peter Guarnaccia
- pt. I. Medical error and the American transplant theater
- American's angel or thieving immigrant? : media coverage, the Santillan story, and publicized ambivalence toward donation and transplantation / Susan E. Morgan [and others]
- Hobson's choices : matching and mismatching in transplantation work processes / Richard I. Cook
- The transplant surgeon's perspective on the bungled transplant / Thomas Diflo
- From Libby Zion to Jesica Santillan : many truths / Barron H. Lerner
- All things twice, first tragedy then farce : lessons from a transplant error / Charles L. Bosk
- pt. II. Justice and second chances across the border
- The politics of second chances : waste, futility, and the debate over Jesica's second transplant / Keith Wailoo and Julie Livingston
- Tucker's heart : racial politics and heart transplantation in America / Susan E. Lederer
- Justice in organ allocation / Rosamond Rhodes
- Playing with matches without getting burned : public confidence in organ allocation / Jed Adam Gross
- Consuming differences : post-human ethics, global (in) justice, and the transplant trade in organs / Nancy Scheper-Hughes
- pt. III. Citizens and foreigners/eligibility and exclusion
- Sympathy and exclusion : access to health care for undocumented immigrants in the United States / Beatrix Hoffman
- Eligibility for organ transplantation to foreign nationals : the relationship between citizenship, justice, and philanthropy as policy criteria / Eric M. Meslin, Karen R. Salmon and Jason T. Eberl
- Imagining the nation, imagining donor recipients : Jesica Santillan and the public discourse of belonging / Leo R. Chavez
- pt. IV. Speaking for Jesica
- Babes and baboons : Jesica Santillan and experimental pediatric transplant research in America / Lesley A. Sharp
- Jesica speaks? : adolescent consent for transplantation and ethical uncertainty / Carolyn Rouse
- Fame and fortune : the "simple " ethics of organ transplantation / Nancy M.P. King.