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Book SynopsisThe sudden call, the race to the hospital, the high-stakes operation - the drama of transplant surgery is well known. But what happens before and after the surgery? In
Transplanting Care, Laura L. Heinemann examines the daily lives of midwestern organ transplant patients and those who care for them, from pretransplant preparations through to the long posttransplant recovery.
Trade Review"Succinct, convincing, and organized,
Transplanting Care provides a thoughtful, ethnographically rich account of the day-to-day care involved in looking after transplant recipients before, during, and after their transplant surgeries." -- Lesley A. Sharp * Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Anthropology, Barnard College *
"With its clear and compassionate prose,
Transplanting Care makes an important contribution to ethnographic insights into understandings of care, kinship, chronic illness, and the moral influences they exert upon everyday life." * Somatosphere *
"Succinct, convincing, and organized,
Transplanting Care provides a thoughtful, ethnographically rich account of the day-to-day care involved in looking after transplant recipients before, during, and after their transplant surgeries." -- Lesley A. Sharp * Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Anthropology, Barnard College *
"With its clear and compassionate prose,
Transplanting Care makes an important contribution to ethnographic insights into understandings of care, kinship, chronic illness, and the moral influences they exert upon everyday life." * Somatosphere *
Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsPrologueIntroduction1 Early Navigations2 Troubled Relations and Former Lives3 Precarity and Policy4 When Patients Are Also Caregivers5 Conscripting Caregivers’ Health (Or, When Caregivers are Patients, Too)6 Transformations in Home Life and High-Tech Health Care7 Revealing and Reframing Kinship and CareConclusionNotesReferencesIndex
