A Death Retold: Jesica Santillan, the Bungled Transplant, and Paradoxes of Medical Citizenship

Wailoo, Keith, Julie Livingston, & Peter Guarnaccia, eds. A Death Retold: Jesica Santillan, the Bungled Transplant, and Paradoxes of Medical Citizenship. Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, 2006; www.uncpress.unc.edu.

In February 2003, a teenager from Mexico lay dying

This volume draws together experts in history, sociology, medical ethics, communication and immigration studies, transplant surgery, anthropology, and health law to understand the dramatic events, the major players, and the core issues at stake. Contributors view Jesica's story as a morality tale about the conflicting values underpinning American health care; about the politics of transplant medicine; about deservedness, justice and second changes; and about global dilemmas of medical tourism and citizenship.