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• Author/Creator:Sharp, Lesley Alexandra.
  
• Title:The transplant imaginary : mechanical hearts, animal parts, and moral thinking in highly experimental science / Lesley A. Sharp.
  
• ISBN:9780520957152 (e-book)
  9780520277960 (hardback)
  9780520277984 (paper)
  
• Publication:Berkeley : University of California Press, [2014]
  
• Copyright notice date: ©2014
  
• Physical Description:1 online resource (236 pages) : illustrations
  
• Links:Online book
  

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  • Location:Yale Internet Resource
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  • Notes: Online Resource
    

   
• Local Notes:Access is available to the Yale community.
  
• Notes:Description based on print version record.
  
• Access and use:Access restricted by licensing agreement.
• Other formats:Print version: Sharp, Lesley Alexandra. Transplant imaginary : mechanical hearts, animal parts, and moral thinking in highly experimental science. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2014]
  
• Format:Book
• BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references and index.
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Moral Neutrality in Experimental Science -- 1. The Reconfigured Body of the Transplant Imaginary -- 2. Hybrid Bodies and Animal Science: The Promises of Interspecies Proximity -- 3. Artificial Life: Perfecting the Mechanical Heart -- 4. Temporality and Social Desire in Anticipatory Science -- Conclusion: The Moral Parameters of Virtuous Science -- Notes -- References -- Index.
  
• Subjects:Ethnology--United States.
  Medical anthropology--United States.
  Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.--Social aspects--United States.