TY - JOUR
T1 - "Now, I Am a Proper Human Being"
T2 - Kidney Transplantation in Cyprus
AU - Constantinou, Costas S.
PY - 2012/1
Y1 - 2012/1
N2 - By exploring kidney transplantation as a social process, I describe the variety of lived experience of transplantation and explain how the sociocultural and medical context among Greek-Cypriots on the island of Cyprus works as a template of reference and understanding for this surgery. Patiensts understand kidney transplantation as a means for the return to normality, as the mechanism to become "proper human beings" (σωστóς άνθρωπoς), able to fulfill social obligations and achieve important cultural goals. Such perceptions reflect medical discourses on the island, which present kidney transplantation as the mechanism to enable a return to normal social life.
AB - By exploring kidney transplantation as a social process, I describe the variety of lived experience of transplantation and explain how the sociocultural and medical context among Greek-Cypriots on the island of Cyprus works as a template of reference and understanding for this surgery. Patiensts understand kidney transplantation as a means for the return to normality, as the mechanism to become "proper human beings" (σωστóς άνθρωπoς), able to fulfill social obligations and achieve important cultural goals. Such perceptions reflect medical discourses on the island, which present kidney transplantation as the mechanism to enable a return to normal social life.
KW - Cyprus
KW - illness experience
KW - kidney transplantation
KW - medical discourse
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84858319253&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/01459740.2011.603400
DO - 10.1080/01459740.2011.603400
M3 - Article
C2 - 22288469
AN - SCOPUS:84858319253
SN - 0145-9740
VL - 31
SP - 29
EP - 43
JO - Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness
JF - Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness
IS - 1
ER -