New organs within us : transplants and the moral economy / Aslıhan Sanal.

  • Sanal, Aslıhan, 1971-
Date:
[2011]
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About this work

Publication/Creation

Durham : Duke University Press, [2011]

Physical description

xx, 244 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm.

Contents

Half a human -- From the earth, through the quake -- Against the tide -- Traveling to the West and the East -- Within the experiment -- Close to death -- Internal objects -- Words of life -- The biopolis -- East of "reason", west of "eternal life" -- Regulating human affairs, fears, emotions -- The economy of human flesh and bones -- The biopolis's vocations -- Twice inert, lifeless and life-less -- Spaces of death -- The pool of the dead -- Mehmed -- Insanity -- Kadavra -- Beyond the mirror -- Dissection and disentchantment -- Burial -- Rites of diffusion -- Reburial -- Suicide -- Dying metaphors -- Sacrifice -- The possible.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-231) and index.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    Medical Collection
    WO690 2011S19n
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780822348894
  • 0822348896
  • 9780822349129
  • 0822349124