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The Everyday Practices of Dialysis and Kidney Transplant in Egypt
This thesis is an autoethnography of the lived experiences of kidney disease and transplantation, through the lens of everyday life. I combine my own autoethnographic accounts of my experiences going through kidney disease, failure, dialysis, and eventually organ transplantation, with participant ob...
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| description | This thesis is an autoethnography of the lived experiences of kidney disease and transplantation, through the lens of everyday life. I combine my own autoethnographic accounts of my experiences going through kidney disease, failure, dialysis, and eventually organ transplantation, with participant observation of other kidney patients and transplant recipients, as well as ethnographic research with a kidney donor. In doing so, and by employing an actor-network theoretical framework, this thesis moves away from seeing the kidney as simply a diseased organ or an object to medical intervention. Instead, it aims to unravel the multiplicity, contradictions and myriad of layers that comprise what we label kidney transplant. I connect my autoethnographic account to the cultural, the social, and the political fields within which kidney disease operates in Egypt and examine the way bodies carrying diseased organs are entangled with overindebted subjects, causing new possibilities to emerge – possibilities that sustain life. I place the social at the center of the analysis, and delve into questions of time, space, bodies, and the relationships between humans and non-humans. I move through these entanglements with a sensibility towards the messiness of the different fields through which diseased bodies operate, and with the aim of understanding how we can account for the messy worlds of diseased subjectivities. |
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| spelling | oai:fount.aucegypt.edu:etds-3396 The Everyday Practices of Dialysis and Kidney Transplant in Egypt Abu El Ela, Abdelrazek This thesis is an autoethnography of the lived experiences of kidney disease and transplantation, through the lens of everyday life. I combine my own autoethnographic accounts of my experiences going through kidney disease, failure, dialysis, and eventually organ transplantation, with participant observation of other kidney patients and transplant recipients, as well as ethnographic research with a kidney donor. In doing so, and by employing an actor-network theoretical framework, this thesis moves away from seeing the kidney as simply a diseased organ or an object to medical intervention. Instead, it aims to unravel the multiplicity, contradictions and myriad of layers that comprise what we label kidney transplant. I connect my autoethnographic account to the cultural, the social, and the political fields within which kidney disease operates in Egypt and examine the way bodies carrying diseased organs are entangled with overindebted subjects, causing new possibilities to emerge – possibilities that sustain life. I place the social at the center of the analysis, and delve into questions of time, space, bodies, and the relationships between humans and non-humans. I move through these entanglements with a sensibility towards the messiness of the different fields through which diseased bodies operate, and with the aim of understanding how we can account for the messy worlds of diseased subjectivities. 2024-06-10T07:00:00Z thesis application/pdf https://fount.aucegypt.edu/etds/2355 https://fount.aucegypt.edu/context/etds/article/3396/viewcontent/The_everyday_practices_of_dialysis_and_kidney_transplant_in_Egypt__Abdel_Razek_Abu_El_Ela.pdf Theses and Dissertations AUC Knowledge Fountain The Everyday Life Kidney failure organs donation auto-ethnography organ transplantations care state debt indebted subjects |
| spellingShingle | The Everyday Life Kidney failure organs donation auto-ethnography organ transplantations care state debt indebted subjects Abu El Ela, Abdelrazek The Everyday Practices of Dialysis and Kidney Transplant in Egypt |
| title | The Everyday Practices of Dialysis and Kidney Transplant in Egypt |
| title_full | The Everyday Practices of Dialysis and Kidney Transplant in Egypt |
| title_fullStr | The Everyday Practices of Dialysis and Kidney Transplant in Egypt |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Everyday Practices of Dialysis and Kidney Transplant in Egypt |
| title_short | The Everyday Practices of Dialysis and Kidney Transplant in Egypt |
| title_sort | everyday practices of dialysis and kidney transplant in egypt |
| topic | The Everyday Life Kidney failure organs donation auto-ethnography organ transplantations care state debt indebted subjects |
| url | https://fount.aucegypt.edu/etds/2355 https://fount.aucegypt.edu/context/etds/article/3396/viewcontent/The_everyday_practices_of_dialysis_and_kidney_transplant_in_Egypt__Abdel_Razek_Abu_El_Ela.pdf |
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