Overview
- Offers an original contribution to debates on xenotransplantation by drawing on theories of sovereignty and security
- Traces the impact of sovereignty and security, in empirical and discursive domains
- Comprises an insightful and thought-provoking foray into the world of xenotransplanation
Part of the book series: Health, Technology and Society (HTE)
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“Ray Carr has given us a lucid, sophisticated and highly significant study of the contrasting regulations and ethical discourses pertaining to the practice of xenotransplantation in Australia, New Zealand, Great Britain and the United States.” (Susan Merrill Squier, Brill Professor Emeritus of English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Penn State University)
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Book Title: Species of Contagion
Book Subtitle: Animal-to-Human Transplantation in the Age of Emerging Infectious Disease
Authors: Ray Carr
Series Title: Health, Technology and Society
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8289-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-8288-9Published: 18 February 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-8291-9Published: 19 February 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-8289-6Published: 17 February 2022
Series ISSN: 2946-3386
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3378
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 221
Topics: Science and Technology Studies, Medical Sociology, Medical Anthropology