VIEWS OF ORGAN TRANSPLANT
- Hegemonic Views from Allopathy:
- Body is an organic machine with replaceable parts
- Mind and body are separate aspects of human beings, the body may be understood as an interrelated set of components whose function is mechanistic (Gordon 1995)
- parts are absent "identity"
- parts are equal in their value and have no other cultural meaning attributes
- heart
- face
- eyes
- hand
- brain?
- blood
- are there cultural meanings here?
- What might their potential significance be?
- organs and the embodiment of SELFHOOD, notions of CONTAGIOUS MAGIC and enbodiment
- meeting the donor's family-special significance?
- how might this impact organ donation rates and attitudes about organ transplants
- ORGANS are COMMODIFIED as are other parts of the body
- organ sales
- exploitation of the poor and vulnerable (Dirty Pretty Things)
- access to "lists" as a product of Racism and privilege
- Redefinition of DEATH as BRAIN DEATH in order to facilitation transplantation
- resistance to this definition
- abuse perceptions subject to this definition
- COST is justified as "war" on the body as "controlled" by culture.
- Drs. especially surgeons are HEROIC and at the "frontiers" of medicine
- seen as "miracle workers"
- artificial heart experiments and Dr. DeVries
- separation of conjoined twins
- "GIFT OF LIFE"
- Mauss (1954) and the notion of gift giving and the cultural importance of reciprocation in exchange.
- no reciprocation is possible (dilemma culturally)
THE LGBTQIA COMMUNITY---Cultural Presuppositions
- Notions of health and wellbeing related to embodiment
- how do these differ from the hegemonic culture
- are the body and mind distinct and separate unrelated entities?
- Is gender purely a "social/cultural construction"?
- How are gender and sexuality and sex and sexual preference interrelated concepts?
- do these have alternate meanings in the LGBTQIA community?
- how will this impact their access to healthcare, services and wellbeing?
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