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- Presents a unique, psychoanalytical perspective on normative and experiential issues in organ transplantation
- Focuses on basic quandaries in transplantation medicine, such as embodiment, the moral status of the human body and the concept of bodily integrity
- Examines transplantation medicine via an oblique perspective, using genres of the imagination (notably organ transplant cinema) to broaden the area of reflection.
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
This book addresses organ transplantation from a psychoanalytical perspective. Where other authors consider topics of informed consent, scarcity and organ trade, Zwart explores the ways in which the practice fundamentally challenges our basic experience and image of the body, revolving around issues such as embodiment, ownership and bodily integrity. In organ transplantation, the body emerges as something which we simultaneously have and are—constituting a whole, as well as a set of partial objects that can be transplanted and replaced, donated and sold.
Authors and Affiliations
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Erasmus School of Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
H.A.E. Zwart
About the author
H.A.E. Zwart is Dean of Erasmus School of Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Purloined Organs
Book Subtitle: Psychoanalysis of Transplant Organs as Objects of Desire
Authors: H.A.E. Zwart
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05354-3
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-05353-6Published: 15 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-05354-3Published: 07 March 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 140
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Clinical Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Sexual Behavior, Self and Identity