Biolust, Brain Death, and the Battle Over Organ Transplants
America?s Biotech Juggernaut and its Japanese Critics
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
- Date of Publication 27 June 2024
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781350255074
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages288 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 10 bw illus 599
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Long description:
William LaFleur (1936-2010), an eminent scholar of Japanese studies, left behind a substantial number of influential publications, as well as several unpublished works. The most significant of these examines debates concerning the practice of organ transplantation in Japan and the United States, and is published here for the first time.
This provocative book challenges the North American medical and bioethical consensus that considers the transplantation of organs from brain dead donors as an unalloyed good. It joins a growing chorus of voices that question the assumption that brain death can be equated facilely with death. It provides a deep investigation of debates in Japan, introducing numerous Japanese bioethicists whose work has never been treated in English. It also provides a history of similar debates in the United States, problematizing the commonly held view that the American public was quick and eager to accept the redefinition of death.
A work of intellectual and social history, this book also directly engages with questions that grow ever more relevant as the technologies we develop to extend life continue to advance. While the benefits of these technologies are obvious, their costs are often more difficult to articulate. Calling attention to the risks associated with our current biotech trajectory, LaFleur stakes out a highly original position that does not fall neatly onto either side of contemporary US ideological divides.
Table of Contents:
1. Preface, Edward Drott (Sophia University, Japan)
2. Introduction, Amy Borovoy (Princeton University, USA)
3. Surgical Masks
4. Sweating Corpses
5. Global Search
6. Fear as Discovery's Instrument
7. Sectioning Human Nature
8. Closeted Medical Bombs
9. Campaign for Miracles
10. Body, Waste and Philosophy
11. Immortality and Desire
12. Conclusion, Susumu Shimazono (Tokyo University, Japan)
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