The Resource The transplant imaginary : mechanical hearts, animal parts, and moral thinking in highly experimental science, Lesley A. Sharp
The transplant imaginary : mechanical hearts, animal parts, and moral thinking in highly experimental science, Lesley A. Sharp
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- Summary
- " 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. "--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xiv, 221 pages
- Contents
-
- Moral neutrality in experimental science
- The reconfigured body of the transplant imaginary
- Hybrid bodies and animal science: the promises of interspecies proximity
- Artificial life: perfecting the mechanical heart
- Temporality and social desire in anticipatory science
- The moral parameters of virtuous science
- Isbn
- 9780520277960
- Label
- The transplant imaginary : mechanical hearts, animal parts, and moral thinking in highly experimental science
- Title
- The transplant imaginary
- Title remainder
- mechanical hearts, animal parts, and moral thinking in highly experimental science
- Statement of responsibility
- Lesley A. Sharp
- Subject
-
- MEDICAL / Diseases
- Medical anthropology
- Medical anthropology -- United States
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
- Ethnology
- Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Social aspects
- Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Social aspects -- United States
- United States
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
- Ethnology -- United States
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- " 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. "--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Sharp, Lesley Alexandra
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- RD120.7
- LC item number
- .S492 2014
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.
- Ethnology
- Medical anthropology
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
- MEDICAL / Diseases
- Ethnology
- Medical anthropology
- Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.
- United States
- Label
- The transplant imaginary : mechanical hearts, animal parts, and moral thinking in highly experimental science, Lesley A. Sharp
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Moral neutrality in experimental science -- The reconfigured body of the transplant imaginary -- Hybrid bodies and animal science: the promises of interspecies proximity -- Artificial life: perfecting the mechanical heart -- Temporality and social desire in anticipatory science -- The moral parameters of virtuous science
- Control code
- 857863195
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xiv, 221 pages
- Isbn
- 9780520277960
- Lccn
- 2013024442
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- System control number
- (OCoLC)857863195
- Label
- The transplant imaginary : mechanical hearts, animal parts, and moral thinking in highly experimental science, Lesley A. Sharp
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Moral neutrality in experimental science -- The reconfigured body of the transplant imaginary -- Hybrid bodies and animal science: the promises of interspecies proximity -- Artificial life: perfecting the mechanical heart -- Temporality and social desire in anticipatory science -- The moral parameters of virtuous science
- Control code
- 857863195
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xiv, 221 pages
- Isbn
- 9780520277960
- Lccn
- 2013024442
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- System control number
- (OCoLC)857863195
Subject
- MEDICAL / Diseases
- Medical anthropology
- Medical anthropology -- United States
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
- Ethnology
- Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Social aspects
- Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Social aspects -- United States
- United States
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
- Ethnology -- United States
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