Domesticating Organ Transplant: Familial Sacrifice and National Aspiration in Mexico
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Domesticating Organ Transplant: Familial Sacrifice and National Aspiration in Mexico
Megan Crowley-Matoka
Domesticating Organ Transplant: Familial Sacrifice and National Aspiration in Mexico
Domesticating Organ Transplant: Familial Sacrifice and National Aspiration in Mexico
Megan Crowley-Matoka
Descripción
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.
Detalles
Formato | Tapa suave |
Número de Páginas | 336 |
Lenguaje | Inglés |
Editorial | Duke University Press |
Fecha de Publicación | 2016-03-25 |
Dimensiones | 8.9" x 6.0" x 0.8" pulgadas |
Letra Grande | No |
Con Ilustraciones | Si |
Temas | América Latina, Mexicano |
Acerca del Autor
Megan Crowley-Matoka is Assistant Professor of Medical Humanities and Bioethics at Northwestern University.
Descripción
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.
Detalles
Formato | Tapa dura |
Número de Páginas | 336 |
Lenguaje | Inglés |
Editorial | Duke University Press |
Fecha de Publicación | 2016-03-25 |
Dimensiones | 9.3" x 6.2" x 0.9" pulgadas |
Letra Grande | No |
Con Ilustraciones | Si |
Temas | América Latina, Mexicano |
Acerca del Autor
Megan Crowley-Matoka is Assistant Professor of Medical Humanities and Bioethics at Northwestern University.
Garantía & Otros
Garantía: | 30 dias por defectos de fabrica |
Peso: | 0.454 kg |
SKU: | 9780822360674 |
Publicado en Unimart.com: | 03/11/23 |
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