Domesticating Organ Transplant
Familial Sacrifice and National Aspiration in Mexico
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2016
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-6052-0 (ISBN)
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-6052-0 (ISBN)
In Domesticating Organ Transplant Megan Crowley-Matoka examines the iconic power of kidney transplantation in Mexico, where the procedure is inexorably linked to the imaginings of individual and national identity, national pride, and the role of women in creating the Mexican state.
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.
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.
Megan Crowley-Matoka is Assistant Professor of Medical Humanities and Bioethics at Northwestern University.
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
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 25.3.2016 |
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Zusatzinfo | 3 illustrations |
Verlagsort | North Carolina |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 590 g |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Chirurgie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-8223-6052-7 / 0822360527 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8223-6052-0 / 9780822360520 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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