Title Domesticating organ transplant : familial sacrifice and national aspiration in Mexico / Megan Crowley-Matoka

Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2016 ©2016

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 316 pages) : illustrations Contents Living organ donation, bioavailability, and ethical domesticity -- Cadaveric organ donation, biounavailability, and slippery states -- Being worthy of transplant, embodying transplant's worth -- The unsung story of posttransplant life -- Gifts, commodities, and analytic icons in the anthropological lives of organs -- Scientists, saints, and monsters in transplant medicine Summary "Organ transplant in Mexico is overwhelmingly a family matter, utterly dependent on kidneys from living relatives--not from stranger donors typical elsewhere. Yet Mexican transplant is also a public affair that is proudly performed primarily in state-run hospitals. In Domesticating Organ Transplant, Megan Crowley-Matoka examines the intimate dynamics and complex politics of kidney transplant, drawing on extensive fieldwork with patients, families, medical professionals, and government and religious leaders in Guadalajara. Weaving together haunting stories and sometimes surprising statistics culled from hundreds of transplant cases, she offers nuanced insight into the way iconic notions about mothers, miracles, and mestizos shape how some lives are saved and others are risked through transplantation. Crowley-Matoka argues that as familial donors render transplant culturally familiar, this fraught form of medicine is deeply enabled in Mexico by its domestication as both private matter of home and proud product of the nation. Analyzing the everyday effects of transplant's own iconic power as an intervention that exemplifies medicine's death-defying promise and commodifying perils, Crowley-Matoka illuminates how embodied experience, clinical practice, and national identity produce one another."--Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-305) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Kidneys -- Transplantation -- Mexico Organ donors -- Mexico Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Social aspects -- Mexico Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Moral and ethical aspects. Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. Organ Transplantation MEDICAL -- Surgery -- General. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. Kidneys -- Transplantation Organ donors Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Moral and ethical aspects Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Social aspects Mexico Form Electronic book ISBN 9780822374633 0822374633

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