圖書標籤: 人類學 醫學人類學 ethnography body Anthropology biomedicine 醫療人類學 英文原版
发表于2024-12-23
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Tales about organ transplants appear in mythology and folk stories, and surface in documents from medieval times, but only during the past twenty years has medical knowledge and technology been sufficiently advanced for surgeons to perform thousands of transplants each year. In the majority of cases individuals diagnosed as 'brain dead' are the source of the organs without which transplants could not take place. In this compelling and provocative examination, Margaret Lock traces the discourse over the past thirty years that contributed to the locating of a new criterion of death in the brain, and its routinization in clinical practice in North America. She compares this situation with that in Japan where, despite the availability of the necessary technology and expertise, brain death was legally recognized only in 1997, and then under limited and contested circumstances. "Twice Dead" explores the cultural, historical, political, and clinical reasons for the ready acceptance of the new criterion of death in North America and its rejection, until recently, in Japan, with the result that organ transplantation has been severely restricted in that country. This incisive and timely discussion demonstrates that death is not self-evident, that the space between life and death is historically and culturally constructed, fluid, multiple, and open to dispute. In addition to an analysis of that professional literature on and popular representations of the subject, Lock draws on extensive interviews conducted over ten years with physicians working in intensive care units, transplant surgeons, organ recipients, donor families, members of the general public in both Japan and North America, and political activists in Japan opposed to the recognition of brain death. By showing that death can never be understood merely as a biological event, and that cultural, medical, legal, and political dimensions are inevitably implicated in the invention of brain death, "Twice Dead" confronts one of the most troubling questions of our era.
Lock 總是喜歡從比較的視野提齣問題,這未嘗不是一種好的進路。但一個很深的感覺是,對於異文化的分析時常遊離於經驗之外,還是北美的部分寫的直擊人心,也可見日本多半還是作為一個啓發本文化反思的參照,Lock真正想迴應的還是western society的問題……
評分Lock 總是喜歡從比較的視野提齣問題,這未嘗不是一種好的進路。但一個很深的感覺是,對於異文化的分析時常遊離於經驗之外,還是北美的部分寫的直擊人心,也可見日本多半還是作為一個啓發本文化反思的參照,Lock真正想迴應的還是western society的問題……
評分Lock 總是喜歡從比較的視野提齣問題,這未嘗不是一種好的進路。但一個很深的感覺是,對於異文化的分析時常遊離於經驗之外,還是北美的部分寫的直擊人心,也可見日本多半還是作為一個啓發本文化反思的參照,Lock真正想迴應的還是western society的問題……
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Twice Dead pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024