Lesley Sharp: 6 books
Bodies, Commodities, and Biotechnologies
Death, Mourning, and Scientific Desire in the Realm of Human Organ Transfer
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2006
In the United States today, the human body defines a lucrative site of reusable parts, ranging from whole organs to minuscule and even microscopic tissues. Although the medical practices that enable the transfer of parts from one body to another most certainly relieve suffering and extend lives, they...
Strange Harvest
Organ Transplants, Denatured Bodies, and the Transformed Self
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2006
Strange Harvest illuminates the wondrous yet disquieting medical realm of organ transplantation by drawing on the voices of those most deeply involved: transplant recipients, clinical specialists, and the surviving kin of deceased organ donors. In this rich and deeply engaging ethnographic study,...
The Transplant Imaginary
Mechanical Hearts, Animal Parts, and Moral Thinking in Highly Experimental Science
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2013
In The Transplant Imaginary, author Lesley Sharp explores the extraordinarily surgically successful realm of organ transplantation, which is plagued worldwide by the scarcity of donated human parts, a quandary that generates ongoing debates over the marketing of organs as patients die waiting for...
by Nicholas Royle, Guy Ware, Charles Boyle
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2013
The third in a series of annual anthologies, The Best British Short Stories 2013 reprints the cream of short fiction, by British writers, first published in 2012. These stories appeared in magazines from the Edinburgh Review to Granta, in anthologies from various publishers, and in authors’ own...
Happy Homicides 4: Fall Into Crime
Happy Homicides Mystery Anthologies, #4
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Find your new favorite author - or enjoy a new story by an old fave - with this collection of clean mysteries. Cuddle up with intrepid sleuths, stunning locations, and puzzling crimes. Includes an email address for a free illustrated bonus file with recipes and craft ideas that go along with stories...
Animal Ethos
The Morality of Human-Animal Encounters in Experimental Lab Science
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
What kinds of moral challenges arise from encounters between species in laboratory science? Animal Ethos draws on ethnographic engagement with academic labs in which experimental research involving nonhuman species provokes difficult questions involving life and death, scientific progress, and other...