Aged bodies and kinship matters: The ethical field of kidney transplant

American Ethnologist

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 81-99

  Kaufman, Sharon R ^a   Russ, Ann J ^a   Shim, Janet K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biopolitics; Culture of medicine; Intersubjectivity; Kinship and kidney transplant; Life extension; Life itself; United States

Indexed keywords

EID: 32044463810     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/ae.2006.33.1.81     Document Type: Article

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