Crowley-Matoka Megan Crowley-Matoka

Domesticating Organ Transplant (eBook, PDF)

Familial Sacrifice and National Aspiration in Mexico

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Produktbeschreibung

Organ transplant in Mexico is overwhelmingly a family matter, utterly dependent on kidneys from living relatives-not from stranger donors typical elsewhere. Yet Mexican transplant is also a public affair that is proudly performed primarily in state-run hospitals. In Domesticating Organ Transplant, Megan Crowley-Matoka examines the intimate dynamics and complex politics of kidney transplant, drawing on extensive fieldwork with patients, families, medical professionals, and government and religious leaders in Guadalajara. Weaving together haunting stories and sometimes surprising statistics culled from hundreds of transplant cases, she offers nuanced insight into the way iconic notions about mothers, miracles, and mestizos shape how some lives are saved and others are risked through transplantation. Crowley-Matoka argues that as familial donors render transplant culturally familiar, this fraught form of medicine is deeply enabled in Mexico by its domestication as both private matter of home and proud product of the nation. Analyzing the everyday effects of transplant's own iconic power as an intervention that exemplifies medicine's death-defying promise and commodifying perils, Crowley-Matoka illuminates how embodied experience, clinical practice, and national identity produce one another.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822374633
• Artikelnr.: 54782051

Autorenporträt

Megan Crowley-Matoka is Assistant Professor of Medical Humanities and Bioethics at Northwestern University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction  1
Part I. Giving Kidneys (Or Not)
1. Living Organ Donation, Bioavailability, and Ethical Domesticity  33
2. Cadaveric Organ Donation, Biounavailability, and Slippery States  65
Part II. Getting Kidneys (Or Not)
3. Being Worthy of Transplant, Embodying Transplant's Worth  109
4. The Unsung Story of Posttransplant Life  147
Part III. Framing Transplantation
5. Gifts, Commodities, and Analytic Icons in the Anthropological Lives of
Organs  187
6. Scientists, Saints, and Monsters in Transplant Medicine  225
Coda 261
Notes  267
References  285
Index  307