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049			_aAlfaisal Main Library
050	0	0	_aRD120.7 _b.S492 2014
100	1		_aSharp, Lesley Alexandra, _eauthor
245	1	4	_aThe transplant imaginary : _bmechanical hearts, animal parts, and moral thinking in highly experimental science / _cLesley A. Sharp
264		1	_aBerkeley : _bUniversity of California Press, _c[2014]
300			_axiv, 221 pages ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index
505	8		_aMachine generated contents note: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Moral Neutrality in Experimental Science -- 1. The Reconfigured Body of the Transplant Imaginary -- 2. Hybrid Bodies and Animal Science: The Promises of Interspecies Proximity -- 3. Artificial Life: Perfecting the Mechanical Heart -- 4. Temporality and Social Desire in Anticipatory Science -- Conclusion: The Moral Parameters of Virtuous Science -- Notes -- References -- Index
520			_a" 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. Especially prominent, longstanding, and promising domains include xenotransplantation, or efforts to cull fleshy organs from animals for human use, and bioengineering, a field peopled with "tinkerers" intent on designing implantable mechanical devices, where the heart is of special interest. Scarcity, suffering, and sacrifice are pervasive and, seemingly, inescapable themes that frame the transplant imaginary. Xenotransplant experts and bioengineers at work in labs in five Anglophone countries share a marked determination to eliminate scarcity and human suffering, certain that their efforts might one day altogether eliminate any need for parts of human origin. A premise that drives Sharp's compelling ethnographic project is that high-stakes experimentation inspires moral thinking, informing scientists' determination to redirect the surgical trajectory of transplantation and, ultimately, alter the integrity of the human form. "-- _cProvided by publisher
650		0	_aTransplantation of organs, tissues, etc. _xSocial aspects _zUnited States
650		0	_aEthnology _zUnited States
650		0	_aMedical anthropology _zUnited States
650	1	2	_aOrgan Transplantation
650	2	2	_aAnthropology, Medical
650	2	2	_aEthnology
651		2	_aUnited States
655		0	_2local _94 _aPrint books.
942			_2lcc _cBOOKS
260			_c[2014]
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