On face transplantation
Subtitle: life and ethics in experimental biomedicine
By: Samuel Taylor-Alexander, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
Edition: First edition.
Series: Palgrave pivot
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Palgrave Pivot
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 74
ISBN-13: 9781137452719; 9781137452733; 9781137452726
Subjects: Face; Transplantation; Plastic Surgery; Moral and ethical aspects; Biotechnology; MEDICAL / Biotechnology; MEDICAL / Ethics; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 68-72) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: 1. A History of the Present2. Institutionalized Personhood3. Self-formation and Ethical Being4. Constituting a FieldPostscript.