This book addresses organ transplantation from a psychoanalytical perspective. Where other
authors consider topics of informed consent scarcity and organ trade Zwart explores the ways
in which the practice fundamentally challenges our basic experience and image of the body
revolving around issues such as embodiment ownership and bodily integrity. In organ
transplantation the body emerges as something which we simultaneously have and
are-constituting a whole as well as a set of partial objects that can be transplanted and
replaced donated and sold.
