A Death Retold

Jesica Santillan, the Bungled Transplant, and Paradoxes of Medical Citizenship

Buch | Hardcover

392 Seiten

2006 | New edition
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-0-8078-3059-8 (ISBN)

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In February 2003, an undocumented immigrant teen, Jesica Santillan, from Mexico lay dying in a prominent American hospital due to a stunning medical oversight. This volume draws together experts from various fields to understand the dramatic events, the major players, and the core issues at stake.

In February 2003, an undocumented immigrant teen from Mexico lay dying in a prominent American hospital due to a stunning medical oversight - she had received a heart-lung transplantation of the wrong blood type. In the following weeks, Jesica Santillan's tragedy became a portal into the complexities of American medicine, prompting contentious debate about new patterns and old problems in immigration, the hidden epidemic of medical error, the lines separating transplant "haves" from "have-nots," the right to sue, and the challenges posed by "foreigners" crossing borders for medical care. This volume draws together experts in history, sociology, medical ethics, communication and immigration studies, transplant surgery, anthropology, and health law to understand the dramatic events, the major players, and the core issues at stake. Contributors view the Santillan story as a morality tale: about the conflicting values underpinning American health care; about the politics of transplant medicine; about how a nation debates deservedness, justice, and second chances; and about the global dilemmas of medical tourism and citizenship.

KEITH WAILOO is professor of history and author of the award-winning Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health (from the University of North Carolina Press). JULIE LIVINGSTON is assistant professor of history and author of Debility and the Moral Imagination in Botswana. PETER GUARNACCIA is a medical anthropologist in the department of human ecology and has published numerous articles on cross-cultural issues in mental health. All three editors teach at Rutgers University, where they are affiliated with the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research. Studies in Social Medicine

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.11.2006
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Social Medicine
Verlagsort	Chapel Hill
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Chirurgie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8078-3059-3 / 0807830593
ISBN-13	978-0-8078-3059-8 / 9780807830598
Zustand	Neuware