Sanal New Organs Within Us

Transplants and the Moral Economy
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9367-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten

Reihe: Experimental futures

An ethnographic analysis of organ transplantation in Turkey, based on the stories of kidney-transplant patients and physicians in Istanbul.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sanal, Aslihan

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue. The Accurate Nature of Things xi

Introduction. What Makes the World Our Own 1

The Book 6

In the Field 7

Part One. The Desirable 15

Half a Human 15

From the Earth, Through the Quake 21

Against the Tide 26

Traveling to the West and the East 30

Within the Experiment 36

Close to Death 41

Internal Objects 44

Words of Life 46

The Biopolis 50

East of "Reason," West of "Eternal Life" 54

Regulating Human Affairs, Fears, Emotions 63

The Economy of Human Flesh and Bones 85

The Biopolis's Vocations 95

Twice Inert, Lifeless, and Life-less 108

Part Two. The Impossible 111

Spaces of Death 111

The Pool of the Dead 118

Mehmed 122

Insanity 128

Kadavra 130

Beyond the Mirror 134

Dissection and Disenchantment 140

Burial 143

Rites of Diffusion 146

Reburial 150

Suicide 153

Dying Metaphors 160

Sacrifice 165

The Possible 175

Conclusion. New Life 179

Epistemic Passages 180

Benimseme 191

Acknowledgments 197

Notes 201

Bibliography 221

Index 233

Über Autor(innen)

Aslihan Sanal is a cultural anthropologist who focuses on science and medical technology. She received her PhD from MIT in 2005, and is currently working as an independent scholar. This is her first book.