Margaret Lock (1)
Auteur de Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death
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Margaret Lock (1) a été combiné avec Margaret M. Lock.
Œuvres de Margaret Lock
Les œuvres ont été combinées en Margaret M. Lock.
Beyond the Body Proper: Reading the Anthropology of Material Life (Body, Commodity, Text) (2007) — Directeur de publication — 45 exemplaires
Knowledge, Power, and Practice: The Anthropology of Medicine and Everyday Life (Comparative Studies of Health Systems… (1993) — Directeur de publication — 30 exemplaires
Living and Working with the New Medical Technologies: Intersections of Inquiry (2000) — Directeur de publication — 19 exemplaires
Remaking a World: Violence, Social Suffering, and Recovery (2001) — Directeur de publication — 19 exemplaires
New Horizons in Medical Anthropology: Essays in Honour of Charles Leslie (Theory and Practice in Medicalanthropology) (2002) — Directeur de publication — 9 exemplaires
Oeuvres associées
Les œuvres ont été combinées en Margaret M. Lock.
Remaking Life & Death: Toward an Anthropology of the Biosciences (School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series) (2003) — Contributeur — 15 exemplaires
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- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Marjorie Bronfman Professor Emerita in Social Studies in Medicine
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- McGill University
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Discussing the conflict over brain-death as a category in Japan, Lock argues, “The culture of tradition is self-consciously put to work to aid those opposed to the recognition of brain death” (pg. 11). In the West, however, acceptance of brain-death was not a foregone conclusion as it forces one to consider what defines a person, either their physical living body or their consciousness (pg. 37). Lock writes, “Cerebral death confronts us with yet another ambiguous life-form that until recently was imaginable only in science fiction. The determination of cerebral death is made on the basis of an irreversible loss of consciousness” (pg. 119). This goes further to define the limits of what qualifies as death, either physical or social. In the West, concepts of brain-death limit death to a physical, quantifiable event, whereas in Japan, death exists as a social occurrence involving the relationships of the person and their family (pg. 183). The machinery that prolongs life also plays a role in defining the limits of humanity. Lock writes that the machinery of artificial respiration displaces the personhood of the patients , though in Japan, “some people may conceptualize machine and human as working in partnership, creating an animated hybrid that can overcome all odds” (pg. 370). Further, examining the role of organ transplant in a gift system, Lock cites Marcel Mauss, who concluded, “all gifts carry reciprocal expectations, and gift exchange is a means of establishing lifelong commitments that create the structure of social institutions and their hierarchies” (pg. 315). This creates a host of problems in Japanese society, where gift giving involves culturally ingrained practices that recipients cannot follow through on since the donor is deceased. Even when the donor is not anonymous, the recipient fears lifelong obligation to the family that they cannot repay. Even in the West, organs are fetishized, imbued with personality about the “gender, ethnicity, skin color, personality, and social status of their donors” (pg. 320). Even the process of keeping an organ alive apart from the body defies traditional conventions of the body.… (plus d'informations)