Spare Parts: Organ Replacement in American Society
Author:   Annenberg Professor of the Social Sciences Renee C Fox (University of Pennsylvania) ,  President Judith P Swazey (The Acadia Institute)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press, USA
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9781280526305


Pages:   254
Publication Date:   01 January 1992
Format:   Electronic book text
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Spare Parts centres on the developments that have occurred in the field of organ transplantation during the 1980s and early 1990s, and on the rise and fall of the Jarvik-7 artificial heart in that period. It is vividly written in a narrative ethnographic style. The interconnected stories of organ transplantation and the artificial heart are recounted in an interpretive framework that attributes their most enduring significance to the triple themes of uncertainty, gift exchange, and the allocation of scarce material and non-material resources, and to the way that they open questions of life and death, identity and solidarity.

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Author:   Annenberg Professor of the Social Sciences Renee C Fox (University of Pennsylvania) ,  President Judith P Swazey (The Acadia Institute)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press, USA
Imprint:   Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:  

9781280526305


ISBN 10:   1280526300
Pages:   254
Publication Date:   01 January 1992
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Electronic book text
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order   Availability explained
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