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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Laura L. HeinemannPublisher: Rutgers University Press Imprint: Rutgers University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.286kg ISBN: 9780813574424ISBN 10: 0813574420 Pages: 208 Publication Date: 12 July 2016 Recommended Age: From 18 to 99 years Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print ![]() This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsPrologueIntroduction1 Early Navigations2 Troubled Relations and Former Lives3 Precarity and Policy4 When Patients Are Also Caregivers5 Conscripting Caregivers’ Health (Or, When Caregivers are Patients, Too)6 Transformations in Home Life and High-Tech Health Care7 Revealing and Reframing Kinship and CareConclusionNotesReferencesIndexReviewsSuccinct, convincing, and organized, Transplanting Care provides a thoughtful, ethnographically rich account of the day-to-day care involved in looking after transplant recipients before, during, and after their transplant surgeries. --Lesley A. Sharp Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Anthropology, Barnard College Succinct, convincing, and organized, Transplanting Care provides a thoughtful, ethnographically rich account of the day-to-day care involved in looking after transplant recipients before, during, and after their transplant surgeries. --Lesley A. Sharp Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Anthropology, Barnard College With its clear and compassionate prose, Transplanting Care makes an important contribution to ethnographic insights into understandings of care, kinship, chronic illness, and the moral influences they exert upon everyday life. --Somatosphere Succinct, convincing, and organized, Transplanting Care provides a thoughtful, ethnographically rich account of the day-to-day care involved in looking after transplant recipients before, during, and after their transplant surgeries. --Lesley A. Sharp Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Anthropology, Barnard College Succinct, convincing, and organized, Transplanting Care provides a thoughtful, ethnographically rich account of the day-to-day care involved in looking after transplant recipients before, during, and after their transplant surgeries. --Lesley A. Sharp Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Anthropology, Barnard College Author InformationLAURA L. HEINEMANN is an associate professor of medical anthropology at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |