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Organ Transplantation and Personal Identity: How Does Loss and Change of Organs Affect the Self?
Södertörn University, School of Culture and Communication, Centre for Studies in Practical Knowledge.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8973-8591
2012 (English)In: Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, ISSN 0360-5310, E-ISSN 1744-5019, Vol. 37, no 2, p. 139-158Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

In this paper, changes in identity and selfhood experienced through organ transplantation are analyzed from a phenomenological point of view. The chief examples are heart and face transplants. Similarities and differences between the examples are fleshed out by way of identifying three layers of selfhood in which the procedures have effects: embodied selfhood, self-reflection, and social-narrative identity. Organ transplantation is tied to processes of alienation in the three layers of selfhood, first and foremost a bodily alienation experienced through illness or injury and in going through and recovering from the operation. However, in cases in which the organ in question is taken to harbor the identity of another person, because of its symbolic qualities (the heart) or its expressive qualities (the face), the alienation process may also involve the otherness of another person making itself, at least imaginatively, known.

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Oxford University Press, 2012. Vol. 37, no 2, p. 139-158
Keywords [en]
phenomenology, transplantation ethics, alienation, heart, face
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Philosophy Psychology
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Critical and Cultural Theory; Baltic and East European studies
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URN: urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-16991DOI: 10.1093/jmp/jhs011ISI: 000304011300004PubMedID: 22474141Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84862077778Local ID: 1169/42/2007:3OAI: oai:DiVA.org:sh-16991DiVA, id: diva2:548065
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The body as gift, resource and commodity: Organ transplantation in the Baltic region, The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies
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The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies, A014-2007Available from: 2012-08-29 Created: 2012-08-29 Last updated: 2020-07-09Bibliographically approved

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