Strange harvest

Sharp, Lesley Alexandra

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Document type:: Book

Collection:: POP - Possession, Ownership, Property

Title:: Strange harvest: organ transplants, denatured bodies, and the transformed self

Author:: Sharp, Lesley Alexandra

Scope:: 23cm

Publisher:: Univ. of California Press

Place of publication:: Berkeley, Calif. [u.a.]

Year of publication:: 2006

Language:: English

Subject:: Transplantation Trauerritual

Note:: Literaturverz. S. 269 - 298

Topic:: D - Anthropology, ethnology, material culture

Shelfmark:: D/S531

Access:: Physisches Exemplar Sondersammlung POP

Contents List of lllustrations Acknowledements INTRODUCTION: STRANGE HARVEST The Ideological Underpinnings of Organ Transfer Studying Transplantation in American Contexts WE ARE THE DEAD MEN: MIND OVER MATTER A Most Peculiar Death Reconstructing Donor Histories Body Economies MEMORY WORK: PUBLIC AND PRIVATE REPRESENTATIONS OF SUFFERING, LOSS, AND REDEMPTION Recipient Suffering and Renewal Honoring the Dead in Safe, Public Places The Private Lives of Donor Kin PUBLIC ENCOUNTERS AS SUBVERSIVE ACTS Bureaucratic Constraints on Social Desire The Ties That Bind Claiming the Donor Body HUMAN HYBRIDITY: SCIENTIFIC LONGING AND THE DANGERS OF DIFFERENCE Dangerous Miracles Professional Desires to Cultivate Nature Yi ” I” 2Q 12 17 74 92 101 107 123 136 159 161 181 190 206 207 211

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