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Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Ordinary Medicine: Extraordinary Treatments, Longer Lives, and Where to Draw the Line
By
Sharon R. Kaufman
Sharon R. Kaufman
Sharon R. Kaufman is Chair of the Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. She is the author of
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Duke University Press
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This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved.
ISBN electronic:
978-0-8223-7550-0
Publication date:
2015
Book Chapter
Family Matters: Kidneys and New Forms of Care
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Published:May 2015
This chapter demonstrates how patients and families become caught up in the world of kidney transplantation, especially living donor transplantation. Living kidney donation, in particular from an adult child to a parent, has become a normal cultural practice and a routine social fact that, for many, guides how love and obligation are expressed.
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