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Strange harvest : organ transplants, denatured bodies, and the transformed self / Lesley A. Sharp

Author
Sharp, Lesley Alexandra
Published
Berkeley : University of California Press, [2006]
Copyright Date
©2006
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiv, 307 pages) : illustrations
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Contents
We are the dead men -- Memory work -- Public encounters as subversive acts -- Human hybridity.
Summary
Strange Harvest illuminates the wondrous yet disquieting medical realm of organ transplantation by drawing on the voices of those most deeply involved: transplant recipients, clinical specialists, and the surviving kin of deceased organ donors. In this rich and deeply engaging ethnographic study, anthropologist Lesley Sharp explores how these parties think about death, loss, and mourning, especially in light of medical taboos surrounding donor anonymity. As Sharp argues, new forms of embodied intimacy arise in response, and the riveting insights gleaned from her interviews, observations, and d.
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ISBN
9780520939615 (electronic bk.)
0520939611 (electronic bk.)
1429419156 (electronic bk.)
9781429419154 (electronic bk.)
1601295308 (electronic bk.)
9781601295309 (electronic bk.)
0520247841 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0520247868 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780520247840
9780520247864
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-298) and index.
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