Prologue. The Accurate Nature of Things  xi

Introduction. What Makes the World Our Own  1

The Book  6

In the Field  7

Part One. The Desirable  15

Half a Human  15

From the Earth, Through the Quake  21

Against the Tide  26

Traveling to the West and the East  30

Within the Experiment  36

Close to Death  41

Internal Objects  44

Words of Life  46

The Biopolis  50

East of "Reason," West of "Eternal Life"  54

Regulating Human Affairs, Fears, Emotions  63

The Economy of Human Flesh and Bones  85

The Biopolis's Vocations  95

Twice Inert, Lifeless, and Life-less  108

Part Two. The Impossible  111

Spaces of Death  111

The Pool of the Dead  118

Mehmed  122

Insanity  128

Kadavra  130

Beyond the Mirror  134

Dissection and Disenchantment  140

Burial  143

Rites of Diffusion  146

Reburial  150

Suicide  153

Dying Metaphors  160

Sacrifice  165

The Possible  175

Conclusion. New Life  179

Epistemic Passages  180

Benimseme  191

Acknowledgments  197

Notes  201

Bibliography  221

Index  233

“Without a doubt, New Organs Within Us is a significant contribution to the empirical studies exploring the global organ trade, as well as a compelling narrative that draws in the reader from the very first page.… New Organs Within Us is a unique and valuable account of the Turkish “biopolis,” an important contribution to the literature that explores the local meanings of organ donation, and a useful reference book for students who have an interest in science and technology studies which explore nature and culture. It is Sanal’s beautiful storytelling, however, that makes this book very appealing even to those who are not familiar with the existing literature or who would not usually be interested in this topic.”—Ilke Turkmendag, Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics: An International Journal

“New Organs within Us: Transplants and the Moral Economy is a richly ethnographic and soulfully written book that plunges its audience into the world of transplant patients and physicians…. The book is an important contribution to the burgeoning field of organ transplant.”—Monir Moniruzzaman, American Ethnologist

“Without a doubt, New Organs Within Us is a significant contribution to the empirical studies exploring the global organ trade, as well as a compelling narrative that draws in the reader from the very first page.… New Organs Within Us is a unique and valuable account of the Turkish “biopolis,” an important contribution to the literature that explores the local meanings of organ donation, and a useful reference book for students who have an interest in science and technology studies which explore nature and culture. It is Sanal’s beautiful storytelling, however, that makes this book very appealing even to those who are not familiar with the existing literature or who would not usually be interested in this topic.”—Ilke Turkmendag, Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics: An International Journal

“New Organs within Us: Transplants and the Moral Economy is a richly ethnographic and soulfully written book that plunges its audience into the world of transplant patients and physicians…. The book is an important contribution to the burgeoning field of organ transplant.”—Monir Moniruzzaman, American Ethnologist

“New Organs Within Us is a tour de force. A brave, nuanced, and caring journey into the lives of transplant patients and the new worlds of meaning they tentatively inhabit. Soulfully written, the book changes the way we think about inner life and well-being, technology and human agency, and the impact of the global biomedical enterprise on local health systems. Social scientists and medical practitioners will have to reckon with this exceptional analysis for years to come.”—João Biehl, author of Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment and Will to Live: AIDS Therapies and the Politics of Survival

“I learned a great deal from this brilliant book. There is nothing else like it in the ethnographic literature on comparative high-tech medicine. Aslihan Sanal reaches far beyond the story of transplant patients and the organ trade in Turkey, taking in global flows of knowledge and ethics around brain-death, organ donation, and standards of care, as well as the worldwide organ trade, in which organs are exchanged legally and on the black market.”—Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Professor of Social Medicine, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School

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