Constructing embodied identity in a ‘new’ ageing population: A qualitative study of the pioneer cohort of childhood liver transplant recipients in the UK

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• 作者：Karen Lowton^a ; ^{k.lowton@sussex.ac.uk} ; Chris Hiley^b ; Paul Higgs^c
• 关键词：United Kingdom ; Organ transplant ; Identity ; Embodiment ; Corporeality ; Childhood ; New ageing populations ; Qualitative
• 刊名：Social Science & Medicine
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：172
• 期：Complete
• 页码：1-9
• 全文大小：262 K
• 卷排序：172

文摘

Medical innovation has created a future of survival for many people. Paediatric liver transplant creates new understandings of embodied identity. The interplay of corporeality and embodiment affects personal identity. Children and now-adult survivors straddle discourses of being ‘normal’ and ‘different’.