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On Face Transplantation: Life and Ethics in Experimental Biomedicine

  • Samuel Taylor-Alexander
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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-viii
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  2. A History of the Present
    Samuel Taylor-Alexander
    Pages 1-18
  3. Institutionalized Personhood
    Samuel Taylor-Alexander
    Pages 19-33
  4. Self-formation and Ethical Being
    Samuel Taylor-Alexander
    Pages 34-56
  5. Constituting a Field
    Samuel Taylor-Alexander
    Pages 57-63
  6. Postscript
    Samuel Taylor-Alexander
    Pages 64-67
  7. Back Matter
    Pages 68-74
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About this book

Introduction

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.

Keywords

biomedicine ethics Familie Institution medicine transplantation

Authors and affiliations

  • Samuel Taylor-Alexander
    • 1
  1. 1.The University of AucklandNew Zealand

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