Transplanting Care: Shifting Commitments in Health and Care in the United States

Author:   Laura L. Heinemann
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
ISBN:  

9780813574424


Pages:   208
Publication Date:   12 July 2016
Recommended Age:   From 18 to 99 years
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Laura L. Heinemann
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
Imprint:   Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.286kg
ISBN:  

9780813574424


ISBN 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   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

PrefaceAcknowledgmentsPrologueIntroduction1        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 CareConclusionNotesReferencesIndex 

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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


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


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LAURA L. HEINEMANN is an associate professor of medical anthropology at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska.

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