The Transplant Imaginary: Mechanical Hearts, Animal Parts, and Moral Thinking in Highly Experimental Science

by Lesley A. Sharp

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520277988
• ISBN13: 9780520277984
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"