The sudden call, the race to the hospital, the high-stakes operation - the drama of transplant surgery is well known. But what happens before and after the surgery? In Transplanting Care, Laura L. Heinemann examines the daily lives of midwestern organ transplant patients and those who care for them, from pretransplant preparations through to the long posttransplant recovery.

Preface

Acknowledgments

Prologue

Introduction

1        Early Navigations

2        Troubled Relations and Former Lives

3        Precarity and Policy

4        When Patients Are Also Caregivers

5        Conscripting Caregivers’ Health (Or, When Caregivers are Patients, Too)

6        Transformations in Home Life and High-Tech Health Care

7        Revealing and Reframing Kinship and Care

Conclusion

Notes

References

Index

LAURA L. HEINEMANN is an associate professor of medical anthropology at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska.