New Organs Within Us
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-4912-9 (ISBN)
New Organs Within Us is a richly detailed and conceptually innovative ethnographic analysis of organ transplantation in Turkey. Drawing on the moving stories of kidney-transplant patients and physicians in Istanbul, Aslihan Sanal examines how imported biotechnologies are made meaningful and acceptable not only to patients and doctors, but also to the patients’ families and Turkish society more broadly. She argues that the psychological theory of object relations and the Turkish concept of benimseme—the process of accepting something foreign by making it one’s own—help to explain both the rituals that physicians perform to make organ transplantation viable in Turkey and the psychic transformations experienced by patients who suffer renal failure and undergo dialysis and organ transplantation. Soon after beginning dialysis, patients are told that transplantable kidneys are in short supply; they should look for an organ donor. Poorer patients add their names to the state-run organ share lists. Wealthier patients pay for organs and surgeries, often in foreign countries such as India, Russia, or Iraq. Sanal links Turkey’s expanding trade in illegal organs to patients’ desires to be free from dialysis machines, physicians’ qualms about declaring brain-death, and media-hyped rumors of a criminal organ mafia, as well as to the country’s political instability, the privatization of its hospitals, and its position as a hub in the global market for organs.
Aslihan Sanal is a cultural anthropologist who focuses on science and medical technology. She received her PhD from MIT in 2005, and is currently working as an independent scholar. This is her first book.
Prologue. The Accurate Nature of Things xi
Introduction. What Makes the World Our Own 1
The Book 6
In the Field 7
Part One. The Desirable 15
Half a Human 15
From the Earth, Through the Quake 21
Against the Tide 26
Traveling to the West and the East 30
Within the Experiment 36
Close to Death 41
Internal Objects 44
Words of Life 46
The Biopolis 50
East of "Reason," West of "Eternal Life" 54
Regulating Human Affairs, Fears, Emotions 63
The Economy of Human Flesh and Bones 85
The Biopolis's Vocations 95
Twice Inert, Lifeless, and Life-less 108
Part Two. The Impossible 111
Spaces of Death 111
The Pool of the Dead 118
Mehmed 122
Insanity 128
Kadavra 130
Beyond the Mirror 134
Dissection and Disenchantment 140
Burial 143
Rites of Diffusion 146
Reburial 150
Suicide 153
Dying Metaphors 160
Sacrifice 165
The Possible 175
Conclusion. New Life 179
Epistemic Passages 180
Benimseme 191
Acknowledgments 197
Notes 201
Bibliography 221
Index 233
| Reihe/Serie | Experimental Futures |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 11 photographs |
| Verlagsort | North Carolina |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 232 mm |
| Gewicht | 395 g |
| Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Chirurgie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8223-4912-4 / 0822349124 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8223-4912-9 / 9780822349129 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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