Spare parts : organ replacement in American Society / Renée C. Fox and Judith P. Swazey with the assistance of Judith C. Watkins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fox, Renée C. (Renée Claire), 1928-2020, author.

Swazey, Judith P. (Judith Pound), 1939- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.

Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.

Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc--Social aspects--United States.

Heart, Artificial--History.

Heart, Artificial.

Heart, Artificial--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.

Artificial Organs--trends--United States.

Heart, Artificial--history--United States.

Organ Transplantation--psychology.

Organ Transplantation--trends--United States.

Medical Subjects:

Artificial Organs--trends--United States.

Heart, Artificial--history--United States.

Organ Transplantation--psychology.

Organ Transplantation--trends--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 254 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This study relates developments that have occurred in the field of organ transplantation during the 1980s and early 1990s, and the rise and fall of the popularity of the Jarvik-7 artificial heart during that period.

Contents:

Intro

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION: REBUILDING PEOPLE

I: Organ Transplantation: Patterns and Issues in the 1980s

1. Of Wonder Drugs, the Transplant "Boom," and Moratoria

The "Advent" of Cyclosporine

The Expansion of Organ Transplantation

The Experiment-Therapy Status of Organ Transplantation

A Multiplicity of Clinical Moratoria

The Coming of FK 506

2. Organ Transplantation as Gift Exchange

Marcel Mauss' Gift-Exchange Paradigm

Obligations to Give Organs

Obligations to Receive Organs and Patients' Reservations About Accepting Them

Obligations to Receive Organs and Surgeons' Reservations About Live Donations

Obligations to Repay the "Gift of Life" and the "Tyranny of the Gift,

3. Alterations in the Theme of the Gift

Who Are My Kin? Who Are My Strangers? Live-Donor Kidney Transplants

The Debut of Live-Donor Liver and Lung Transplants

Making a Live Donor: Bone Marrow Transplants

Efforts to Increase Gifts of Life

From Gifts of Life to Market Commodities?

4. Transplantation and the Medical Commons

The Transplantation Commons

Transplantation and the Medical Commons

Transplantation, Medicine, and the Societal Commons

II: The Jarvik- 7 Artificial Heart Experiment

5. Desperate Appliance: A Short History of the Jarvik-7 Artificial Heart

Cast of Characters and Their Locales

Prologue

Act I: The Development of the Jarvik Heart

Act II: Barney Clark's Heart

Act III: The Move to Humana

Act IV: The Experiment Continues

Entr'acte: The Artificial Heart as a Bridge to Transplant

Act IV: Continued

Act V: Endings

Epilogue

6. "Made in the U.S.A.": American Features in the Rise and Fall of the Jarvik-7 Artificial Heart

American Places, Portraits, and Scenarios

American Astronaut Imagery

The American Land of Oz.

Factors Shaping the American Features of the Artificial Heart Experiment

Meanings of the Heart

The Role of Mormonism

Corporate Connections

The Rise and Fall of Cold Fusion

7. Who Shall Guard the Guardians?

Initiating Human Testing

Jarvik- 7 Implants as Clinical Research

The Gatekeepers

Moratoria and Endings

III: The Participant Observers: Final Journeys

8. Leaving the Field

NOTES

REFERENCES

INDEX

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Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1992.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-770864-1

1-280-52630-0

9786610526307

0-19-975964-2

1-4294-0756-5

OCLC:

819511212