Strange Harvest - Organ Transplants, Denatured Bodies, and the Transformed Self - Grand Format

Strange Harvest illuminates the wondrous yet disquieting medical realm of organ transplantation by including the voices of those most deeply involved : transplant recipients, clinical specialists, and the surviving kin of deceased organ donors. This rich and engaging study explores how these parties think about death, loss, and mourning, especially in light of medical taboos surrounding donor anonymity.
As Lesley Sharp argues, new forms of embodied intimacy arise in response to organ donation, and the riveting insights gleaned from her interviews, observations, and descriptions of donor memorials and transplant events expose how patients and donor families make sense of the transfer of body parts from the dead to the living.