IA Abstract Suravi Roy Copy

Human organ transplantation was a complex development in medical science that started in the late 1970s. Organ transplantation was accepted in society because the human body began to be perceived in a mechanical way, where every organ is only a cog in a machine. Thus the human organs are treated as mechanical parts which are replaceable. This ascribes an exchange value to individual body parts. In my term paper, I would like to examine how and why the human body and specially the body organs have been commoditized and what are its implications in modern society. For this purpose I would like to examine a novel Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro and a movie The Island directed by Michael Bay. Both the novel and the movie are set in a dystopian world and deal with organ transplantation.