The transplant imaginary : mechanical hearts, animal parts, and moral thinking in highly experimental science / Lesley A. Sharp.

Author
Sharp, Lesley Alexandra [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Berkeley : University of California Press, [2014]
Description
1 online resource (xiv, 221 pages) : illustrations

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Summary note
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.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of description
Print version record.
Contents
  • Introduction: Moral neutrality in experimental science
  • The reconfigured body of the transplant imaginary
  • Hybrid bodies and animals science: the promises of interspecies proximity
  • Artificial life: perfecting the mechanical heart
  • Temporality and social desire in anticipatory science
  • Conclusion: The moral parameters of virtuous science.
ISBN
  • 1299981712 ((electronic bk.))
  • 9781299981713 ((electronic bk.))
  • 9780520957152 ((electronic bk.))
  • 0520957156 ((electronic bk.))
OCLC
860924023
Doi
  • 10.1525/9780520957152
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