On Face Transplantation [electronic resource] : Life and Ethics in Experimental Biomedicine /
Taylor-Alexander, Samuel.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyrights; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1  A History of the Present; Medicine on the make; Disciplinary norms; Surgical beginnings; Ideal patients; Bioethical reason and the emergence of 'quality of life'; 2 Institutionalized Personhood; Patient selection: An initial attempt at stabilization; Operationalizing face transplantation; On stabilization; Bioethical citizens; 3 Self-formation and Ethical Being; What of the (brain) dead?; Joy and disgust and being a hybrid; Accounting for the future; Who gets to make the ethical?
Remaking the ethical: A normative comment on the future of the field4 Constituting a Field; Postscript; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Sociology.
Social medicine.
Medicine—History.
Surgery.
Ethics.
Life sciences.
Sociology, general.
Medical Sociology.
History of Medicine.
Surgery.
Ethics.
Life Sciences, general.