CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION: REBUILDING PEOPLE -- I: Organ Transplantation: Patterns and Issues in the 1980s -- 1. Of Wonder Drugs, the Transplant "Boom," and Moratoria -- The "Advent" of Cyclosporine -- The Expansion of Organ Transplantation -- The Experiment-Therapy Status of Organ Transplantation -- A Multiplicity of Clinical Moratoria -- The Coming of FK 506 -- 2. Organ Transplantation as Gift Exchange -- Marcel Mauss' Gift-Exchange Paradigm -- Obligations to Give Organs -- Obligations to Receive Organs and Patients' Reservations About Accepting Them -- Obligations to Receive Organs and Surgeons' Reservations About Live Donations -- Obligations to Repay the "Gift of Life" and the "Tyranny of the Gift," -- 3. Alterations in the Theme of the Gift -- Who Are My Kin? Who Are My Strangers? Live-Donor Kidney Transplants -- The Debut of Live-Donor Liver and Lung Transplants -- Making a Live Donor: Bone Marrow Transplants -- Efforts to Increase Gifts of Life -- From Gifts of Life to Market Commodities? -- 4. Transplantation and the Medical Commons -- The Transplantation Commons -- Transplantation and the Medical Commons -- Transplantation, Medicine, and the Societal Commons -- II: The Jarvik- 7 Artificial Heart Experiment -- 5. Desperate Appliance: A Short History of the Jarvik-7 Artificial Heart -- Cast of Characters and Their Locales -- Prologue -- Act I: The Development of the Jarvik Heart -- Act II: Barney Clark's Heart -- Act III: The Move to Humana -- Act IV: The Experiment Continues -- Entr'acte: The Artificial Heart as a Bridge to Transplant -- Act IV: Continued -- Act V: Endings -- Epilogue -- 6. "Made in the U.S.A.": American Features in the Rise and Fall of the Jarvik-7 Artificial Heart -- American Places, Portraits, and Scenarios -- American Astronaut Imagery -- The American Land of Oz.

Factors Shaping the American Features of the Artificial Heart Experiment -- Meanings of the Heart -- The Role of Mormonism -- Corporate Connections -- The Rise and Fall of Cold Fusion -- 7. Who Shall Guard the Guardians? -- Initiating Human Testing -- Jarvik- 7 Implants as Clinical Research -- The Gatekeepers -- Moratoria and Endings -- III: The Participant Observers: Final Journeys -- 8. Leaving the Field -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.