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_aFrey, Sita Maria. _91037765 |
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_aRepresentations of Organ Transplants : _bWestern Fantasies and Black Market Realities. |
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_aHeidelberg : _bUniversitätsverlag Winter, _c2014. |
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_aBeiträge zur neueren Literaturgeschichte [Dritte Folge] ; _vv. 333 |
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505 | 0 | _aAcknowledgements; CONTENTS; 1 Introduction; 2 Theoretical and Methodological Framing; 3 Organ Transplants: 'Gifts of Life' between Altruism and Butchery; 3.1 A Short History of Organ Transplants; 3.2 Medical-Ethical Discourse; 3.3 Juridical Discourse; 3.4 Religious and Philosophical Discourse; 3.5 Anthropological Discourse and Practice; 3.6 The Economics of Organ Transplantation; 3.6.1 Allocation; 3.6.2 Body Upgrading; 4 Cultural Images of Organ Transplants; 4.1 Early Myths and Tales on Physical Transformation; 4.2 Beyond Frankenstein -- Contemporary Imaginings about Organ Transplants. | |
505 | 8 | _a4.2.1 Being 1D Salomea Tinnel: STANISLAW LEM'S LAYER CAKE4.2.2 Medical Carnage: ROBIN COOK'S COMA; 4.2.3 Of Spare Parts and Flowerbeds: A.K. RAMANUJAN'S 'DEATH AND THE GOOD CITIZEN' ULRIKE DRAESNER'S'AUTOPILOT I-IV; 4.2.4 Spiritual Vacuity and Corporeal Disobedience: TOMIO TADA'S THE WELL OF IGNORANCE DEA LOHER'S HÄNDE; 4.2.5 Plucking at the Heartstrings: JOHN IRVING'S THE FOURTH HAND; 4.2.6 Doing 'Happy' Global Business: CHRIS ABANI'S GRACELAND; 4.2.7 An Organ Incubator Called Sweetheart: KAZUO ISHIGURO'S NEVER LET ME GO; 4.2.8 On Lego People: SABINE GRUBER'S ÜBER NACHT. | |
505 | 8 | _a5 The (Literary) Discourse on Organ Transplants: Intercultural Comparison5.1 The Use of Medical-Technical Language; 5.2 Militaristic Imagery; 5.3 Mechanisms of Naturalization; 5.4 Enmity, Othering and Alliances in Donor-Recipient Relationships; 5.5 Structural Features of 'Transplant Literature; 5.6 Popular and Highbrow Modes; 5.7 The Meaning of Culture; 6 Final Remarks about the Achievements of Literature in Times of Transplant Technology; 7 Bibliography. | |
520 | _aAmong the many spectacular scientific breakthroughs of the last hundred years, developments in biotechnology have perhaps been the most noteworthy. Bill Gates even claimed that if he were a teenager today, he'd be hacking biology. For many people, however, biotechnologies such as organ transplantation entail more than the mere exchange of cells and human tissue. As sites of cultural work, literary texts participate in the discourse on transplantation. They create a cultural field where opposing views on transplant surgery struggle for expression without cancelling one another. The result is an. | ||
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