Frictions in the Transplant Clinic: Using Ethnography and Arts to Understand Challenges Across the Span of Solid Organ Transplantation
This presentation will discuss some of the common psychosocial challenges that exist across the extended temporalities of various types of solid organ transplantation: from initial psychosocial assessments, to waitlisting, to adherence post-transplant, and to long-term survivorship as well as graft failure. We discuss the limits of quantitative analyses in capturing the nuance and complexity of aspects of these challenges, and describe a novel project underway at UHN that brings together ethnography, arts-based practices, science and technology studies, and critical disability scholarship to re-imagine the frictions that can arise across the span of transplantation. Within this reimagining, we suggest that new areas and opportunities for care arise.