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Since the early 1950s the burgeoning field of human organ transplants has introduced a practice both unique within, and yet quite typical of, modern medicine. Its uniqueness lies in the fact that transplants save lives by transferring vital organs from one body to another, generating a new instrumental meaning for our organs and the possibility of radically different sorts of (bodily) relationships with a group of suffering persons [2] ([22], pp. 35–38). At the same time, organ transplants are typical of much of modern American medicine, rescuing a relatively small population of well-insured dying patients with highly invasive, expensive and technological therapies ([13], p. 14).
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McCormick, P. (1995). Embodiment and Organ Transplants: On Giving and Taking Our Bodies More Seriously. In: Cahill, L.S., Farley, M.A. (eds) Embodiment, Morality, and Medicine. Theology and Medicine, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8424-1_8
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