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
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