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