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  Organ transplantation as a transformative experience: Anthropological insights into the restructuring of the self

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  Organ wars: The battle for body parts

  Analyzes altruism and individual rights as the ideological equivalents of immunosuppressant drugs, designed to inhibit cultural rejection of transplantation and its view of the body.
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  "They don't have to suffer for me": Why dialysis patients refuse offers of living donor kidneys

  Reports on patients' decisions to refuse living related donor (LRD) kidney offers and concludes that social relations, emotions, and ethnomedical beliefs play an important role in patients' treatment decisions.