Research Catalog
Strange harvest : organ transplants, denatured bodies, and the transformed self
- Title
- Strange harvest : organ transplants, denatured bodies, and the transformed self / Lesley A. Sharp.
- Author
- Sharp, Lesley Alexandra.
- Publication
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2006], ©2006.
- Supplementary Content
Items in the Library & Off-site
Filter by
2 Items
| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | RD120.7 .S49 2006 | Off-site | |
Not available - Please for assistance. | Text | Use in library | Off-site |
Holdings
Details
- Description
- xiv, 307 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Funérailles > Rites et cérémonies > États-Unis
- Deuil > Coutumes > États-Unis
- Ethnology > United States
- Greffe (Chirurgie) > Aspect social > États-Unis
- Mort > États-Unis
- Kinship > United States
- Medical anthropology > United States
- Attitude to Death
- Parenté > États-Unis
- Ethnologie > États-Unis
- Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc > Social aspects > United States
- Funeral Rites
- Funeral rites and ceremonies > United States
- Organ Transplantation
- Anthropologie médicale > États-Unis
- Anthropology, Cultural
- Death > United States
- United States
- Mourning customs > United States
- Memorials > United States
- Tissue and Organ Procurement
- Monuments commémoratifs > États-Unis
- Transplantatie
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-298) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : strange harvest -- 1. We are the dead men : mind over matter -- 2. Memory work : public and private representations of suffering, loss, and redemption -- 3. Public encounters as subversive acts -- 4. Human hybridity : scientific longing and the dangers of difference.
- ISBN
- 0520247841 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0520247868 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780520247840
- 9780520247864
- LCCN
- 2005032838
- 99931919354
- OCLC
- ocm62282288
- SCSB-5277636
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries