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03173aam a2200385 i 4500 001 7235C2FC989711E4B97AA57FDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20150110010635 008 130816s2014 caua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2013024442 020 $a 0520277988 (paper) 020 $a 9780520277984 (paper) 020 $a 0520277961 (hardback) 020 $a 9780520277960 (hardback) 040 $a DLC $e rda $b eng $c DLC $d YDX $d OCLCO $d UKMGB $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d COO $d ZCU $d NLM $d OCLCF $d EEK $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a RD120.7 $b .S492 2014 100 1 $a Sharp, Lesley Alexandra, $e author. 245 14 $a The transplant imaginary : $b mechanical hearts, animal parts, and moral thinking in highly experimental science / $c Lesley A. Sharp. 264 1 $a Berkeley : $b University of California Press, $c [2014] 300 $a xiv, 221 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and 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. "-- $c Provided by publisher. 505 0 $a Moral neutrality in experimental science -- The reconfigured body of the transplant imaginary -- Hybrid bodies and animal science: the promises of interspecies proximity -- Artificial life: perfecting the mechanical heart -- Temporality and social desire in anticipatory science -- The moral parameters of virtuous science. 650 0 $a Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. $x Social aspects $z United States. 650 0 $a Ethnology $z United States. 650 0 $a Medical anthropology $z United States. 941 $a 4 952 $l PNAX964 $d 20200228010222.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191217030152.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20171003035031.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20150110014132.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7235C2FC989711E4B97AA57FDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b JIDInitiate Another SILO Locator Search