Redefining the boundaries of humanity: The case of allo- and xenotransplantation

• Autores: Catherine Rémy
• Localización: Of Bodies and Symptoms: Anthropological Perspectives on their Social and Medical Treatment / coord. por Sylvie Fainzang, Claudie Haxaire, 2011, ISBN 978-84-694-4991-2, págs. 223-238
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The objective of the paper is to analyze allotransplantation and xenotransplantation together, and to investigate their impact on the definition of the boundaries of humanity. We focus on two controversies: the first concerns an attempt at xenotransplantation on a dying American baby, while the second concerns the harvesting of several organs on a young French man who died in a bicycle accident. Through the practice of transplantation, an astonishing new scale of being emerges.