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Strange Harvest: Organ Transplants, Denatured Bodies, and the Transformed Self
Strange Harvest: Organ Transplants, Denatured Bodies, and the Transformed Self
Strange Harvest: Organ Transplants, Denatured Bodies, and the Transformed Self
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Strange Harvest: Organ Transplants, Denatured Bodies, and the Transformed Self

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Strange Harvest illuminates the wondrous yet disquieting medical realm of organ transplantation by drawing on the voices of those most deeply involved: transplant recipients, clinical specialists, and the surviving kin of deceased organ donors. In this rich and deeply engaging ethnographic study, anthropologist Lesley Sharp explores how these parties think about death, loss, and mourning, especially in light of medical taboos surrounding donor anonymity. As Sharp argues, new forms of embodied intimacy arise in response, and the riveting insights gleaned from her interviews, observations, and descriptions of donor memorials and other transplant events expose how patients and donor families make sense of the transfer of body parts from the dead to the living. For instance, all must grapple with complex yet contradictory clinical assertions of death as easily detectable and absolute; nevertheless, transplants are regularly celebrated as forms of rebirth, and donors as living on in others' bodies. New forms of sociality arise, too: recipients and donors' relatives may defy sanctions against communication, and through personal encounters strangers are transformed into kin. Sharp also considers current experimental research efforts to develop alternative sources for human parts, with prototypes ranging from genetically altered animals to sophisticated mechanical devices. These future trajectories generate intriguing responses among both scientists and transplant recipients as they consider how such alternatives might reshape established—yet unusual—forms of embodied intimacy.
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Release dateOct 4, 2006
ISBN9780520939615
Strange Harvest: Organ Transplants, Denatured Bodies, and the Transformed Self
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Lesley A. Sharp

Lesley A. Sharp is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Butler University.

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