Transplanting Care : : Shifting Commitments in Health and Care in the United States / / Laura L. Heinemann.
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, f...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (208 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Early Navigations
- Chapter 2. Troubled Relations and Former Lives
- Chapter 3. Precarity and Policy
- Chapter 4. When Patients Are Also Caregivers
- Chapter 5. Conscripting Caregivers' Health (Or, When Caregivers Are Patients, Too)
- Chapter 6. Transformations in Home Life and High-Tech Health Care
- Chapter 7. Revealing and Reframing Kinship and Care
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Index