Removing an organ from one (typically dead) body and placing it in
another living body challenges our most foundational ideas about
boundaries between self and other, individual and social identity,
life and death, health and illness. But despite these
transgressions, organ transplant is a celebrated and relatively
common procedure. Transplant Fictions brings together a diverse set
of cultural representations to understand how we have overcome the
profound ideological violations represented by organ exchange in
order to reimagine the concept and practice as technological and
moral victories. From the plots of horror stories and sci-fi novels
to sentimental romances and feel-good media reports of stranger
donation, this cultural study offers a nuanced portrait of the
conceptual journey of organ exchange from strange and terrible to
the "gift of life."
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