Strange Harvest: Organ Transplants, Denatured Bodies, and the Transformed Self
by Lesley A. A. Sharp, Lesley A. Sharp
Strange Harvest explores organ transplantation through questions of embodiment, identity, and transformation. It examines how medical intervention can unsettle ordinary understandings of the body, while considering the broader cultural and human meanings attached to altered bodies and the experience of becoming a transformed self.
About This Book
Strange Harvest examines organ transplantation as a profound medical and cultural transformation.
The book considers how transplanted organs challenge familiar ideas about the body and its boundaries.
It explores the relationship between denatured bodies and the transformed self.
Drawing together medical and anthropological perspectives, the work addresses questions of identity, embodiment, and meaning.
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