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Bodies dis(re)membered: Gothic and the transplant imaginary
’s longstanding interest in dysfunctional families this would be a fruitful arena for future scholarship. With regard to artificial organs, my primary focus is human allograft, though I acknowledge that ventilators and dialysis units are already extracorporeal artificial organs. Xenotransplantation has been part of the history of transplantation experiment from the start, and a monograph exclusively exploring literary and cinematic study of xenotransplantation Gothic would draw on emerging scholarship on the treatment of non-human animal bodies within the contemporary