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Informationen zum Autor Aslihan Sanal is a cultural anthropologist who focuses on science and medical technology. She received her PhD from MIT in 2005, and is currently working as an independent scholar. This is her first book. Klappentext Aslihan Sanal is a cultural anthropologist who focuses on science and medical technology. She received her PhD from MIT in 2005, and is currently working as an independent scholar. This is her first book. Zusammenfassung An ethnographic analysis of organ transplantation in Turkey, based on the stories of kidney-transplant patients and physicians in Istanbul. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prologue. The Accurate Nature of Things xi Introduction. What Makes the World Our Own 1 The Book 6 In the Field 7 Part One. The Desirable 15 Half a Human 15 From the Earth, Through the Quake 21 Against the Tide 26 Traveling to the West and the East 30 Within the Experiment 36 Close to Death 41 Internal Objects 44 Words of Life 46 The Biopolis 50 East of "Reason," West of "Eternal Life" 54 Regulating Human Affairs, Fears, Emotions 63 The Economy of Human Flesh and Bones 85 The Biopolis's Vocations 95 Twice Inert, Lifeless, and Life-less 108 Part Two. The Impossible 111 Spaces of Death 111 The Pool of the Dead 118 Mehmed 122 Insanity 128 Kadavra 130 Beyond the Mirror 134 Dissection and Disenchantment 140 Burial 143 Rites of Diffusion 146 Reburial 150 Suicide 153 Dying Metaphors 160 Sacrifice 165 The Possible 175 Conclusion. New Life 179 Epistemic Passages 180 Benimseme 191 Acknowledgments 197 Notes 201 Bibliography 221 Index 233
