Blog Post 9: Organ Transfer, Biopower, & Economies of Life and Death

By 9 pm on Thursday November 4, please post a 600-word response to the following prompt:

Drawing on Nancy Scheper-Hughes's "Commodity Fetishism in Organs Trafficking" (Body and Society 7.2-3, 2001) and Lesley A. Sharp's "Strange Harvest" (from Strange Harvest: Organ Transplants, Denatured Bodies, and the Transformed Self), do a critical reading/analysis of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's Transplant Services website. What arguments does the website make regarding organ transfer? What bodies, processes, technologies, and questions does it foreground? What bodies, processes, technologies, and questions does it minimize? What ideologies are at work in how it frames  questions of organ transfer as well as what is argues about those questions?

You might find it useful to bring in other authors from the course readings to help in your analysis (Michel Foucault, Anna Davin, Sharon Holland, Jackie Stacey, Judith Butler, etc.)