TY - BOOK ID - 20515 TI - Umstrittene Körperteile AU - Hofmann, Simon PY - 2016 SN - 9783839432327 9783837632323 DB - DOAB KW - bioethik KW - medizin KW - organ donation KW - körpergeschichte KW - history KW - switzerland KW - organ transplant KW - schweiz KW - cultural history KW - discourse analysis KW - diskursanalyse KW - körper KW - medicine KW - bioethics KW - history of the 20th century KW - history of the body KW - medizingeschichte KW - geschichtswissenschaft KW - organ trade KW - organspende KW - body KW - history of medicine KW - organtransplantation KW - organhandel KW - kulturgeschichte KW - biomedizin KW - geschichtes des 20. jahrhundert KW - biomedicine UR - https://www.doabooks.org/doab?func=search&query=rid:20515 AB - How did the Swiss organ donation crisis come about? Despite reforms and advertising campaigns, from the late '80s, Swiss transplant medicine began to lament an increasing mistrust in organ donation and falling donor numbers. Simon Hofmann throws light on the role of doctors, nurses, family members and donees, but also of the media, politicians and the pharmaceutical industry. In doing so, he draws out the relations between hospital practices, public debates, and fictitious narratives about organ smuggling. He tells a complex and contradictory story of modern biomedicine at the edge of life and death, which is shaped as much by economic calculations as by utopian hope and traumatic fears. ER -