Transplant anxieties : discourses about bone marrow

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dc.contributor.advisorLevine, Susanen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorAvera, Emilyen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2014-12-26T06:13:08Z
dc.date.available2014-12-26T06:13:08Z
dc.date.issued2008en_ZA
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references (leaves 89-94).en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThis minor dissertation examines the various discourses in the Bone Marrow Transplant (BMT) network in South Africa. The organisations in the network which were observed using participant observation were the South African Bone Marrow Registry and the Sunflower Fund to complement this, the researcher interviewed staff members at these organisations as well as at a public hospital haematology unit in the Cape Town area that conducts BMT. Additionally patients, donors, and their family members were interviewed. Some media related to the BMT network was also analysed. Informed heavily by Troy Duster's work on genetic and social feedback loops, it was found that the discourses reflect a complex interweaving of biological materiality, ethnicity, culture, mortality, health resource rationing, South African nationhood, and the limits of bodily integrity. There is extensive discussion of how the BMT discourses demonstrate the necessity of engagement with several issues: the hybridity of expert and lay intercultural communication, health inequalities, human rights, and the prioritisation of first and third world medicine, the meanings of race, culture, ethnicity, and nationhood in a diverse South Africa, conceptions of donor shortage, and the imperative of saving lives through medical practise.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationAvera, E. (2008). <i>Transplant anxieties : discourses about bone marrow</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Sociology. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10038en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationAvera, Emily. <i>"Transplant anxieties : discourses about bone marrow."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Sociology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10038en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationAvera, E. 2008. Transplant anxieties : discourses about bone marrow. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Avera, Emily AB - This minor dissertation examines the various discourses in the Bone Marrow Transplant (BMT) network in South Africa. The organisations in the network which were observed using participant observation were the South African Bone Marrow Registry and the Sunflower Fund to complement this, the researcher interviewed staff members at these organisations as well as at a public hospital haematology unit in the Cape Town area that conducts BMT. Additionally patients, donors, and their family members were interviewed. Some media related to the BMT network was also analysed. Informed heavily by Troy Duster's work on genetic and social feedback loops, it was found that the discourses reflect a complex interweaving of biological materiality, ethnicity, culture, mortality, health resource rationing, South African nationhood, and the limits of bodily integrity. There is extensive discussion of how the BMT discourses demonstrate the necessity of engagement with several issues: the hybridity of expert and lay intercultural communication, health inequalities, human rights, and the prioritisation of first and third world medicine, the meanings of race, culture, ethnicity, and nationhood in a diverse South Africa, conceptions of donor shortage, and the imperative of saving lives through medical practise. DA - 2008 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2008 T1 - Transplant anxieties : discourses about bone marrow TI - Transplant anxieties : discourses about bone marrow UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10038 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/10038
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationAvera E. Transplant anxieties : discourses about bone marrow. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Sociology, 2008 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10038en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Sociologyen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherDiversity Studiesen_ZA
dc.titleTransplant anxieties : discourses about bone marrowen_ZA
dc.typeMaster Thesis
dc.type.qualificationlevelMasters
dc.type.qualificationnameMPhilen_ZA
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