New Organs Within Us: Transplants and the Moral Economy

by Michael M.J. Fischer, Joseph Dumit, Aslihan Sanal

Book Overview

New Organs Within Us is a richly detailed and conceptually innovative ethnographic analysis of organ transplantation in Turkey. Drawing on the moving stories of kidney-transplant patients and physicians in Istanbul, Aslihan Sanal examines how imported biotechnologies are made meaningful and acceptable not only to patients and doctors, but also to the patients' families and Turkish society more broadly. She argues that the psychological theory...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822349124
• ISBN13: 9780822349129
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"