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‘I had to leave’. A cultural analysis of motives for commercial transplantations.

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Author

Editor

  • Fredrik Svaneaus
  • Martin Gunnarson

Summary, in English

The article is based on a pilot study of the stories of Swedish patients having had a kidney transplant abroad. Our focus is on how people who have been transplanted abroad talk about and handles the dilemma that may arise due to the transplantation trips.

Publishing year

2012

Language

English

Pages

321-343

Publication/Series

The body as gift, resource and commodity

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

Södertörn Studies on Practical Knowledge

Topic

  • Ethnology

Keywords

  • Commercial transplantations
  • Sweden
  • Iran
  • Pakistan

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 978-91-86069-00-0