| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 244 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Experimental futures |
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Experimental futures.
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| 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 -- The impossible -- Reburial -- Suicide -- Dying metaphors -- Sacrifice -- Rites of diffusion |
| Summary |
An ethnographic analysis of organ transplantation in Turkey, based on the stories of kidney-transplant patients and physicians in Istanbul |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Kidneys -- Transplantation -- Patients -- Turkey
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Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Turkey
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Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Organ trafficking -- Turkey
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MEDICAL -- Surgery -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Kidneys -- Transplantation -- Patients
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Organ trafficking
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Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.
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Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Turkey
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780822393672 |
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0822393670 |
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9786613265944 |
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6613265942 |
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