Spare Parts : Organ Replacement in American Society
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0195076508
ISBN-13
9780195076509
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 26th, 1992
Print length
272 Pages
Weight
564 grams
Dimensions
24.10 x 16.20 x 2.70 cms
Product Classification:
Cardiovascular medicineTransplant surgery
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The interconnected stories of organ transplantation and the artificial heart are recounted in an interpretive framework. This attributes their most enduring significance to the triple themes of uncertainty, gift exchange, and the allocation of scarce material and non-material resources, and to the way they open questions of life and death, identity and solidarity.
Spare Parts centres on the developments that have occurred in the field of organ transplantation during the 1980s and early 1990s, and on the rise and fall of the Jarvik-7 artificial heart in that period. It is vividly written in a narrative ethnographic style. The interconnected stories of organ transplantation and the artificial heart are recounted in an interpretive framework that attributes their most enduring significance to the triple themes of uncertainty, gift exchange, and the allocation of scarce material and non-material resources, and to the way that they open questions of life and death, identity and solidarity.
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