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Transplanting Care: Shifting Commitments in Health and Care in the United States
Laura L. Heinemann
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Description for Transplanting Care: Shifting Commitments in Health and Care in the United States
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The sudden call, the race to the hospital, the high-stakes operation—the drama of transplant surgery is well known. But what happens before and after the surgery? In Transplanting Care, Laura L. Heinemann examines the daily lives of midwestern organ transplant patients and those who care for them, from pretransplant preparations through to the long posttransplant recovery. Heinemann points out that as efforts to control healthcare costs gain urgency—and as new surgical techniques, drug therapies, and home medical equipment advance—most of the transplant process now takes place at home, among kin. Indeed, the transplant system effectively depends on unpaid care labor, typically ... Read more
The sudden call, the race to the hospital, the high-stakes operation—the drama of transplant surgery is well known. But what happens before and after the surgery? In Transplanting Care, Laura L. Heinemann examines the daily lives of midwestern organ transplant patients and those who care for them, from pretransplant preparations through to the long posttransplant recovery. Heinemann points out that as efforts to control healthcare costs gain urgency—and as new surgical techniques, drug therapies, and home medical equipment advance—most of the transplant process now takes place at home, among kin. Indeed, the transplant system effectively depends on unpaid care labor, typically ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
Series
Critical Issues in Health and Medicine Series
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813574431
SKU
V9780813574431
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About Laura L. Heinemann
LAURA L. HEINEMANN is an associate professor of medical anthropology at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska.
Reviews for Transplanting Care: Shifting Commitments in Health and Care in the United States
"Succinct, convincing, and organized, Transplanting Care provides a thoughtful, ethnographically rich account of the day-to-day care involved in looking after transplant recipients before, during, and after their transplant surgeries."
Lesley A. Sharp
Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Anthropology, Barnard College
"With its clear and compassionate prose, Transplanting Care makes an important contribution to ethnographic insights into understandings of care, kinship, chronic ... Read more
Lesley A. Sharp
Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Anthropology, Barnard College
"With its clear and compassionate prose, Transplanting Care makes an important contribution to ethnographic insights into understandings of care, kinship, chronic ... Read more