Almost Human and Victim-Messiah: A Sociological Study of Living-Related Kidney Donors and Recipients across the Maze of Organ
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| contents | <p><strong>Abstract: </strong>The widespread dissemination of contemporary renal transplant therapy, giving a new lease of life to those who are suffering from end-stage organ failure, has been a revolutionary<span> </span>opening<span> </span>of<span> </span>Pandora’s<span> </span>Box<span> </span>of<span> </span>‘new<span> </span>ways<span> </span>of<span> </span>living’.<span> </span>The<span> </span>repercussions<span> </span>of<span> </span>this<span> </span>great techno-material advancement are witnessed across the domains of ethics, morality, cultures, societies and especially the social unit of the family, as individuals of a household engage in gifting their spare kidney parts to ill relatives, akin to the idea of “Gift-giving and receiving’ studied by sociologist Marcel Mauss. For the recipient actors, the boundless invasion of their being<span> </span>through<span> </span>means<span> </span>of<span> </span>scientific-technological<span> </span>interventions<span> </span>has<span> </span>led<span> </span>to<span> </span>a<span> </span>complex<span> </span>bodily<span> </span>crisis which cannot be subjected to any kind of precise predictions except a suffering state of existence. The donors also find themselves in a unique position as their decision to partake must be based on genuine altruistic love with no overt expectations of compensation, knowing <span lang="EN-IN">fully well that the process will be an unequal exchange which cannot be reciprocated in concise symmetrical terms by the “other”. The following chapter will record these narratives by means </span>of<span> </span>conducting<span> </span>Primary<span> </span>Unstructured<span> </span>Ethnographic<span> </span>Interviews’<span> </span>Research<span> </span>within<span> </span>the<span> </span>Delhi-NCR region, in addition to incorporating the supplementary resources of earlier content and discourse analyses that have already been conducted on the subjects-in-inquiry to conceptualise the profound obligatory indebtedness associated with “tyranny of the gift”.</p> <p><strong>Keywords:<span> </span></strong><span>Transplant, gift,<span> </span>embodied<span> </span>experience, cyborg-hybrids,<span> </span>tyranny<span> </span>of<span> </span>the<span> gift</span></span></p> |
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| spellingShingle | Almost Human and Victim-Messiah: A Sociological Study of Living-Related Kidney Donors and Recipients across the Maze of Organ Muskaan Kapoor <p><strong>Abstract: </strong>The widespread dissemination of contemporary renal transplant therapy, giving a new lease of life to those who are suffering from end-stage organ failure, has been a revolutionary<span> </span>opening<span> </span>of<span> </span>Pandora’s<span> </span>Box<span> </span>of<span> </span>‘new<span> </span>ways<span> </span>of<span> </span>living’.<span> </span>The<span> </span>repercussions<span> </span>of<span> </span>this<span> </span>great techno-material advancement are witnessed across the domains of ethics, morality, cultures, societies and especially the social unit of the family, as individuals of a household engage in gifting their spare kidney parts to ill relatives, akin to the idea of “Gift-giving and receiving’ studied by sociologist Marcel Mauss. For the recipient actors, the boundless invasion of their being<span> </span>through<span> </span>means<span> </span>of<span> </span>scientific-technological<span> </span>interventions<span> </span>has<span> </span>led<span> </span>to<span> </span>a<span> </span>complex<span> </span>bodily<span> </span>crisis which cannot be subjected to any kind of precise predictions except a suffering state of existence. The donors also find themselves in a unique position as their decision to partake must be based on genuine altruistic love with no overt expectations of compensation, knowing <span lang="EN-IN">fully well that the process will be an unequal exchange which cannot be reciprocated in concise symmetrical terms by the “other”. The following chapter will record these narratives by means </span>of<span> </span>conducting<span> </span>Primary<span> </span>Unstructured<span> </span>Ethnographic<span> </span>Interviews’<span> </span>Research<span> </span>within<span> </span>the<span> </span>Delhi-NCR region, in addition to incorporating the supplementary resources of earlier content and discourse analyses that have already been conducted on the subjects-in-inquiry to conceptualise the profound obligatory indebtedness associated with “tyranny of the gift”.</p> <p><strong>Keywords:<span> </span></strong><span>Transplant, gift,<span> </span>embodied<span> </span>experience, cyborg-hybrids,<span> </span>tyranny<span> </span>of<span> </span>the<span> gift</span></span></p> |
| title | Almost Human and Victim-Messiah: A Sociological Study of Living-Related Kidney Donors and Recipients across the Maze of Organ |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19162872 |