Swan Song: An Account of Organ Donation after Circulatory Death

This is an account of a procedure of organ donation after circulatory death (DCD) that took place in July 2019 in a French hospital. Based on an ethnography in the neuro intensive care unit (neuro-ICU) of this hospital, I describe the impressions that DCD leaves on those taking part in it, the surpr...

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Published in:Medicine Anthropology Theory
Main Author: Laurence Tessier
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Edinburgh 2022-09-01
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Online Access:http://www.medanthrotheory.org/article/view/5693