Switching between Science and Culture in Transpecies Transplantation

Bibliographic Data

ID5163496
AuthorsNik Brown (0000-0002-4742-8595, University of York), Mike Michael (0000-0001-9272-2294, Goldsmith College, University of London, United Kingdom)
Year2001
Volume26
Issue1
Pages3-22
Publication date2001-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueScience Technology & Human Values (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0162-2439 • E-ISSN: 1552-8251
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/016224390102600101
PMID15362238
OpenAlexW2066591908
LanguageEN
Citations received36
References cited31

This article discusses xenotransplantation (XTP: the surgical use of nonhuman tissues, organs, and cells for human transplantation) and examines the way its scientific promoters have defended their technology against potentially damaging public representations. The authors explore the criteria used to legitimate the selection of the pig as the best species from which to "harvest" transplant tissues in the future. The authors' analysis shows that scientists and medical practitioners routinely switch between scientific and cultural repertoires. These repertoires enable such actors to exchange expert identities in scientific discourse for public identities in cultural discourse. These discourses map onto similarities and differences between animal donors and human hosts. Finally, the case is used to comment on a number of related approaches where the dynamics of medical and scientific authority are discussed

Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Political science · Sociology · CRISPR and Genetic Engineering · Engineering · Medicine · Organ Donation and Transplantation · Philosophy · Race, Genetics, and Society · Internal Medicine · Transplantation

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