Domesticating Organ Transplant

Crowley-Matoka Megan Crowley-Matoka

Description

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.

Sujets

• Histoire
• México
• History of the Americas
• Mexico

Informations

• Publié par: Duke University Press
• Date de parution: 10 mars 2016
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780822374633
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 16 Mo

Extrait

D O M E S T I C A T I N G O R G A N T R A N S P L A N T

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Domesticating Organ Transplant

F A M I L I A L S A C R I F I C E

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N A T I O N A L A S P I R A T I O N

I N M E X I C O

M E G A N C R O W L E Y  M A T O K A

Duke University Press Durham and London 2016

©  Dûé Uéŝ Péŝŝ a ŝ éŝéé Pé  é Ué Sàéŝ ô aéçà ô àç-éé àé ∞ éŝé  Qûààà Pô  Wéŝçéŝé Bôô Gôû

à ô Côéŝŝ Cààô--Pûçàô Dàà Côé-Màôà, Méà, [àé] àûô. Dôéŝçà ôà àŝà : àà ŝàçîçé à àôà àŝàô  Méçô / Méà Côé-Màôà. àéŝ ç ïçûéŝ ôàçà éééçéŝ à é. Isbn ---- (àçôé : à. àé) Isbn ---- (. : à. àé) Isbn ---- (é-ôô) . Kéŝ—àŝààô—Méçô. . Oà ôôŝ—Méçô. . àŝààô ô ôàŝ, ŝŝûéŝ, éç.—Sôçà àŝéçŝ—Méçô. . àŝààô ô ôàŝ, ŝŝûéŝ, éç.—Môà à éçà àŝéçŝ. I. é. rd575.c77 2016 .′—ç 

Côé à: Côàé  Mà Sçô; éà ôô © Eûà ŝéô, ŝôç; ôçé ôô © ûçŝ, ŝôç.

For my father, James Swenney Crowley

And my mentor, Arthur J. Rubel

Their lively intellects and love of debate are dearly missed

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Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

P A R T I . G I V I N G K I D N E Y S ( O R N O T )

1. Living Organ Donation, Bioavailability, and Ethical Domesticity 33

2. Cadaveric Organ Donation, Biounavailability, and Slippery States 65

P A R T I I . G E T T I N G K I D N E Y S ( O R N O T )

3. Being Worthy of Transplant, Embodying Transplant’s Worth 109

4. The Unsung Story of Posttransplant Life 147

P A R T I I I . F R A M I N G T R A N S P L A N TAT I O N

5. Gifts, Commodities, and Analytic Icons in the Anthropological Lives of Organs 187

6. Scientists, Saints, and Monsters in Transplant Medicine 225

Coda 261

Notes 267 | References 285 | Index 307

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Acknowledgments

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