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On face transplantation = life and ethics in experimental biomedicine /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	On face transplantation/ Samuel Taylor-Alexander.
Reminder of title:	life and ethics in experimental biomedicine /
Author:	Taylor-Alexander, Samuel.
Published:	Basingstoke :Palgrave Pivot : : 2014.,
Description:	84 p.
Notes:	Electronic book text.
Subject:	Biotechnology. -
Online resource:	Online journal 'available contents' page
ISBN:	1137452722 (electronic bk.) :

On face transplantation = life and ethics in experimental biomedicine /
Taylor-Alexander, Samuel.

On face transplantationlife and ethics in experimental biomedicine /[electronic resource] :Samuel Taylor-Alexander. - 1st ed. - Basingstoke :Palgrave Pivot :2014. - 84 p.

Electronic book text.

1. A History of the Present 2. Institutionalized Personhood 3. Self-formation and Ethical Being 4. Constituting a Field Postscript.

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Drawing together interview material, medical publications, and first-hand accounts, this book shows that what is being remade in the burgeoning medical field of face transplantation is not only the lives of patients, but also the very ways that state institutions, surgeons, and families make sense of rights, claims for inclusion, and life itself.Drawing together interview material, medical publications, and first-hand accounts, this book shows that what is being remade in the burgeoning medical field of face transplantation is not only the lives of patients, but also the very ways that state institutions, surgeons, and families make sense of rights, claims for inclusion, and life itself. This sophisticated account traces the work done by medical and bureaucratic elites to make the life threatening operation a clinical reality. Working within the context of increasing ethical scrutiny, their endeavour has resulted in the delineation of the 'ideal patient' of face transplantation: a person whose particular state of health and suffering allows the operation to be performed given current technical constraints. The operation has introduced into the lives of face transplant recipients a profoundly new sense of personhood in which they continue to negotiate questions of how to relate to their new biology and to those around them.

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Samuel Taylor-Alexander is a Teaching Fellow at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and was previously a Visiting Fellow in the Science, Technology and Society Program at the University of Harvard, USA.

ISBN: 1137452722 (electronic bk.) :£30.00Subjects--Topical Terms:

554955
Biotechnology.

LC Class. No.: RD523 / .T39 2014

Dewey Class. No.: 174.297954

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