Talk:Organ transplantation in fiction

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Donna McCormack has written a number of papers on this topic: see http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/people/20030/faculty_of_arts/person/2027/donna_mccormack -- The Anome (talk) 18:22, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Great, feel free to incorporate any such secondary sources to better comply with policy (WP:PSTS), and better withstand the tides of fancruft that tend to surround pop culture and fiction articles. --Animalparty-- (talk) 21:24, 4 April 2015 (UTC)

Also: getting away from the specific dystopian fiction theme: organ theft also features as a central plot element in Dirty Pretty Things. Also, see Repo Men, where artificial organs are repossessed from recipients who can't keep up on the payments. -- The Anome (talk) 18:25, 2 January 2015 (UTC)

There are now a lot more good references in the Articles for deletion/Organ transplantation in fiction AfD page. I've now dumped these into a "Futher reading" section; these should be properly used as sources later (and converted to proper citation formats, too).

Also: the film John Q is probably worth mentioning here. -- The Anome (talk) 12:23, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

Also: another paper in review, but not yet published, from Donna McCormack: ‘Intruding Upon the Other: The Ethics of Organ Transplantation in Paris and Dirty Pretty Things’, The Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies. -- The Anome (talk) 08:10, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

Frankenstein
I've removed the mention of Shelley's Frankenstein - the book makes no mention of Frankenstein sewing together mismatched body parts or "pieces of cadavers", and doing so would be completely inconsistent with making the creature eight feet tall and proportionally large to facilitate dealing with the minuteness of the parts.

"When I found so astonishing a power placed within my hands, I hesitated a long time concerning the manner in which I should employ it. Although I possessed the capacity of bestowing animation, yet to prepare a frame for the reception of it, with all its intricacies of fibres, muscles, and veins, still remained a work of inconceivable difficulty and labour. I doubted at first whether I should attempt the creation of a being like myself, or one of simpler organization; but my imagination was too much exalted by my first success to permit me to doubt of my ability to give life to an animal as complex and wonderful as man. The materials at present within my command hardly appeared adequate to so arduous an undertaking, but I doubted not that I should ultimately succeed. I prepared myself for a multitude of reverses; my operations might be incessantly baffled, and at last my work be imperfect, yet when I considered the improvement which every day takes place in science and mechanics, I was encouraged to hope my present attempts would at least lay the foundations of future success. Nor could I consider the magnitude and complexity of my plan as any argument of its impracticability. It was with these feelings that I began the creation of a human being. As the minuteness of the parts formed a great hindrance to my speed, I resolved, contrary to my first intention, to make the being of a gigantic stature, that is to say, about eight feet in height, and proportionably large."

This is presumably an example of portrayals in other media intruding into discussion of the book. Perhaps mention Frankenstein (1931 film) instead? tronvillain (talk) 12:43, 30 November 2016 (UTC)