Sharp, Lesley Alexandra.

Strange harvest : organ transplants, denatured bodies, and the transformed self / Lesley A. Sharp. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006. - xiv, 307 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-298) and index.

We are the dead men -- Memory work -- Public encounters as subversive acts -- Human hybridity.

0520247841 (cloth : alk. paper) 0520247868 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780520247840 9780520247864

2005032838

GBA666476 bnb


Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.--Social aspects--United States.
Medical anthropology--United States.
Ethnology--United States.
Funeral rites and ceremonies--United States.
Death--United States.
Mourning customs--United States.
Memorials--United States.
Kinship--United States.
Organ Transplantation--United States.
Anthropology, Cultural--United States.
Tissue and Organ Procurement--United States.

RD120.7 / .S49 2006

306.4/61

WO 660 / S531s 2006