Transplant Fictions: A Cultural Study of Organ Exchange

ISBN-13: 9783030121372 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 310 str.

Emily Russell

Spis treści

1. Introduction.- 2. Corpse to Cadaver: From Body Snatching to Body Worlds.- 3. Making the Lifelike Corpse.- 4. Mortal Signs: Transplantation and the Invention of Brain Death.- 5. “The Gift of Life”: Sentiment and the Family.- 6. Murdering Hands and Mad Doctors: The Horrors of Organ Exchange.- 7. Kidneyville: Organ Exchange at the Margins.- 8. Conclusion: Speculative Medicine, Speculative Fictions.

O autorze

Emily Russell is an Associate Professor of English at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, USA. She is the author of Reading Embodied Citizenship: Disability, Narrative, and the Body Politic (2011).