Assembling organ donation
Situating Organ Donation in Hospital Practice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2249795 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sara Bea (0000-0002-2164-8514, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine School of Global Affairs Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy King’s College London London UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 1934-1948 |
| Publication date | 2020-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology of Health & Illness (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-9889 • E-ISSN: 1467-9566 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-9566.13177 |
| PMID | 32856332 |
| OpenAlex | W3082205984 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 41 |
In this article I argue for the need to situate deceased organ donation in and as a hospital practice. This study puts the spotlight on the practical conditions that enable and emplace organ donation in the hospital setting. The analytical move serves the political purpose to inform and interrogate dominant policy framings intended to address the problem of organ shortage. I present an ethnographic investigation that draws upon a Science and Technology Studies (STS) approach to make visible the sociomaterial arrangements that bring together people, things and politics in the assembling of organ donation at a Catalan hospital. A progressive and indeterminate process which might fall through and become disassembled at any given time. This, as I explain, challenges current opt-out policy that unnecessarily reduces donation to an individual choice to be decided upon in life. Instead, and drawing on ethnographic materials, I propose a situated and relational understanding of organ donation: an embedded health care and procurement practice enacted as a collective accomplishment. I conclude that (more) responsible donation policies need to be informed by, and attuned to, the situated practicalities and enduring tensions that condition and constrain the assembling of organ donation at the hospital setting
Donation · Economic shortage · Ethnography · Health care · Organ donation · Organ procurement · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Situated · Sociology · Blood donation and transfusion practices · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Law · Medicine · Organ Donation and Transplantation · Surgery · Transplantation
Reflective Interviewing
Strange Harvest
Twice Dead
Spare Parts
The Gift Relationship
Recovering the Nation's Body
Organ donation agency
Recovering the Nation's Body
Research Note
In/Visibilities of Research
Living Cadavers and the Calculation of Death
Exchanging spare parts or becoming a new person? People's attitudes toward receiving and donating organs
Death and organ procurement
Organ donation as transition work
Organ Donation in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Commodity Fetishism in Organs Trafficking
The Body Multiple
Situated Knowledges
The Gift
The phenomenology of death, embodiment and organ transplantation
Saying no to organ donation
Expanding the conceptual toolkit of organ gifting
Transplantation as an abstract good
When things strike back
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |