Lesley Sharp
- Adjunct Senior Research Scientist in Sociomedical Sciences
Overview
Academic Appointments
- Adjunct Senior Research Scientist in Sociomedical Sciences
Credentials & Experience
Education & Training
- BA, 1978 Brandeis University
- MA, 1984 UC Berkeley
- PhD, 1990 UC Berkeley
Editorial Boards
Research
Selected Publications
Lesley A. Sharp Bodies, Commodities, and Biotechnologies: Death, Mourning, and Scientific Desire in the Realm of Human Organ Transfer Columbia New York, NY USA 2007
Lesley A. Sharp Strange Harvest: Oragn Transplants, Denatured Bodies, and the Transformed Self California Berkeley, CA, USA 2006
Lesley A. Sharp The Sacrificed Generation: Youth, History, and the Colonized Mind in Madagascar California Bekeley, CA, USA 2002
Lesley A. Sharp The Possessed and the Dispossessed. Spirits, Identity, and Power in a Madagascar Migrant Town California Berkeley, CA, USA 1993
Keith Wailook, Peter Guarnaccia, Julie Livingston, eds. A Death Retold: Jesica Santillan, the Bungled Transplant, and the Paradoxes of Medical Citizenship Carolina Chapel Hill, NC, USA 2006
Lesley A. Sharp Denying Culture in the Transplant Arena: Technocratic Medicine's Myth of Democratization Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 11:2 142-150 2002
Lesley A. Sharp Commodified Kin: Death, Mourning, and Competing Claims on the Bodies of Organ Donors in the United States American Anthropologist 103:1 112-133 2001
Lesley A. Sharp The Commodification of the Body and Its Parts Annual Review of Anthropology 29 287-328 2000
Lesley A. Sharp A Medical Anthropologist's View on Posttransplant Compliance: The Underground Economy of Medical Survival