As the new century unfolds, humans are increasingly surrounded by multiple and expanding
wave fronts of calculation. What remains of the human subject in an age when instrumental …

Organ transplant in Mexico is overwhelmingly a family matter, utterly dependent on kidneys
from living relatives—not from stranger donors typical elsewhere. Yet Mexican transplant is …

Anthropologists' longstanding ambivalence toward political advocacy has, in recent years,
come under sustained fire—a shift that is often framed in terms of the discipline's “moral …

Chronic Failures: Kidneys, Regimes of Care and the Mexican State is about Chronic Kidney
Disease (CKD) and the relentless search for renal care lived out in the context of poverty …

Transplantation Gothic is a shadow cultural history of transplantation, as mediated through
medical writing, science fiction, life writing and visual arts in a Gothic mode, from the …

Background Herpes simplex virus (HSV) encephalitis is a life-threatening infection of the
brain, which has significant physical, cognitive and social consequences for survivors …

This article examines an Australian campaign to increase organ and tissue donation for
transplantation. It analyses the use of the gift rhetoric to promote community awareness and …

In Mexico, the kidneys of individuals in poor and marginalized communities are failing with
little warning and no explanation. Commonly referred to as chronic kidney disease of non …

More than 25 years after Dayton Peace Accords (DPA), the shadows of the Yugoslav and of
the subsequent construction of independent states based on ethnic division still looms over …

This article traces the trope of self-infliction for the moral economy of liver transplantation.
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Germany, I discuss the trope of self-infliction to …