Transplant Fictions
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Author | : Emily Russell |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2019-04-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3030121356 |
Removing an organ from one (typically dead) body and placing it in another living body challenges our most foundational ideas about boundaries between self and other, individual and social identity, life and death, health and illness. But despite these transgressions, organ transplant is a celebrated and relatively common procedure. Transplant Fictions brings together a diverse set of cultural representations to understand how we have overcome the profound ideological violations represented by organ exchange in order to reimagine the concept and practice as technological and moral victories. From the plots of horror stories and sci-fi novels to sentimental romances and feel-good media reports of stranger donation, this cultural study offers a nuanced portrait of the conceptual journey of organ exchange from strange and terrible to the “gift of life.”
Author | : Gerald G. Neufeld |
Publisher | : Novel Voices Press |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 2012-01-16 |
Genre | : Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc |
ISBN | : 0986877301 |
Author | : Lurlene McDaniel |
Publisher | : Laurel Leaf |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Chronic renal failure |
ISBN | : 0553567217 |
Jeremy is determined to donate one of kidneys to Jessica so that she might live, but his parents are fearful of losing their only living child.
Author | : Alexandra Ulysses |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2012-11-06 |
Genre | : Citizenship |
ISBN | : 9780983213109 |
Author | : Stacy Raye Waibel |
Publisher | : Stacy Raye Waibel |
Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 2008-09 |
Genre | : Dogs |
ISBN | : 0982098308 |
Author | : John A. Elefteriades, MD |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 2014-08-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0698175492 |
What do you do when you have to choose between saving a life or saving yourself? Renowned cardiac surgeon Dr. Athan Carras’s first concern has always been the welfare of his patients. Then he’s approached by the very wealthy and even more powerful Terry Flynnt—a man who is used to getting what he wants, no matter what. Flynnt’s son is dying, and his only chance of survival is to receive a donor heart—one that Terry intends to obtain by whatever means necessary. Athan is immediately opposed to performing an illegal and immoral operation, but Flynnt is not about to let that stop him. Now, caught in the crosshairs of a man with unlimited means and influence, Athan finds his own life—and the lives of those he loves—being torn apart. And he will have to decide how far he’s willing to go, and what he is willing to sacrifice…
Author | : Sara Wasson |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2020-10-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1526132885 |
Transplantation Gothic is a shadow cultural history of transplantation, as mediated through medical writing, science fiction, life writing and visual arts in a Gothic mode, from the nineteenth-century to the present. The works explore the experience of donor/suppliers, recipients and practitioners, and simultaneously express transfer-related suffering and are complicit in its erasure. Examining texts from Europe, North America and India, the book resists exoticising predatorial tissue economies and considers fantasies of harvest as both product and symbol of structural ruination under neoliberal capitalism. In their efforts to articulate bioengineered hybridity, these works are not only anxious but speculative. The book will be of interest to academics and students researching Gothic studies, science fiction, critical medical humanities and cultural studies of transplantation.
Author | : Shelley Fraser Mickle |
Publisher | : Charlesbridge Publishing |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2020-04-14 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 1623545390 |
Against a global backdrop of wartime suffering and postwar hope, Borrowing Life gathers the personal histories of the men and women behind the team that enabled and performed the modern medical miracle of the world's first successful organ transplant. "An extraordinary work. Shelley Fraser Mickle has not only provided a detailed, fascinating documentation of the world's first successful organ transplant, but she has also painted the lives of those involved--doctors, patients, family members--so vividly that the reader is completely enthralled and emotionally invested in their grieved losses as well as their successes. The result is a beautiful tribute to medical science as well as to humanity." Jill McCorkle, NYT bestselling author of Life After Life "Working with Dr. Moore, Dr. Murray and Dr, Vandam to create the painting commemorating their historic operation and the research leading up to it was the greatest adventure of my artistic career. Having my painting on the cover of Borrowing Life renews that excitement, for I know what grand adventure is waiting for the reader." Joel Babb, artist "I was so very pleased to be involved with Shelley as she wrote her captivating, compelling book. I only wish that Ron could be here with me to read it." Cynthia Herrick, wife of the first successful organ transplant donor "Had these men and women not worked diligently to save the life of Charles Woods, I and my 5 brothers and 3 sisters, would not have been born. Charles Woods and Miriam Woods are my parents. It is thrilling to read Ms Mickle's book as it closely mirrors the stories our dad and mom shared with us as children. The amazing thing is that as a disfigured war hero, our dad embraced his appearance as a badge of honor." David Woods Performed at Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1954, the first successful kidney transplant was the culmination of years of grit, compassion, and the pursuit of excellence by a remarkable medical team--Nobel Prize-winning surgeon Joseph Murray, his boss and fellow surgeon Francis Moore, and British scientist and fellow Nobel laureate Peter Medawar. Drawing on the lives of these members of the Greatest Generation, Borrowing Life creates a compelling narrative that begins in wartime and tracks decades of the ups and downs, personal and professional, of these inspiring men and their achievements, which continue to benefit humankind in so many ways.
Author | : Malorie Blackman |
Publisher | : Collins Educational |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2000-01-20 |
Genre | : Heart |
ISBN | : 9780003302165 |
Accept a transplant of a pig's heart, or die? That's what Cameron has to decide ... The story: Cameron is offered the chance to have a highly experimental and controversial operation which might save his life. But replacing his heart with one from a pig brings not only medical risk, it places Cameron at the eye of a storm of controversy. Medical ethics, the role of the press and the right to privacy are all brought into vivid focus in this gripping read. Themes: medical ethics; disability; the experience of growing up; animal rights; the individual and society; the media; death. Multicultural Suitable for KS 3/4 (P7-S4)
Author | : MD Elefteriades (John A.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781322718514 |