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Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

INTRODUCTION: STRANGE HARVEST

The Ideological Underpinnings of Organ Transfer

Studying Transplantation in American Contexts

1. WE ARE THE DEAD MEN: MIND OVER MATTER

A Most Peculiar Death

Reconstructing Donor Histories

Body Economies

2. MEMORY WORK: PUBLIC AND PRIVATE REPRESENTATIONS OF SUFFERING, LOSS, AND REDEMPTION

Recipient Suffering and Renewal

Honoring the Dead in Safe, Public Places

The Private Lives of Donor Kin

3. PUBLIC ENCOUNTERS AS SUBVERSIVE ACTS

Bureaucratic Constraints on Social Desire

The Ties That Bind

Claiming the Donor Body

4. HUMAN HYBRIDITY: SCIENTIFIC LONGING AND THE DANGERS OF DIFFERENCE

Dangerous Miracles

Professional Desires to Cultivate Nature

Denatured Bodies and Transformed Selves

Nature's Body

EPILOGUE

Notes

Glossary

References

Index