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Author: Susan E. Lederer
ISBN : 0195161505
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Organ transplantation is one of the most dramatic interventions in modern medicine. Since the 1950s thousands of people have lived with 'new' hearts, kidneys, lungs, corneas, and other organs and tissues transplanted into their bodies. From the beginning, though, there was simply a problem: surgeons often encountered shortages of people willing and able to give their organs and tissues. To overcome this problem, they often brokered financial arrangements. Yet an ethic of gift exchange coexisted with the 'commodification of the body'. The same duality characterized the field of blood transfusion, which was essential to the development of modern surgery.
This book will be the first to bring together the histories of blood transfusion and organ transplantation. It will show how these two fields redrew the lines between self and non-self, the living and the dead, and humans and animals. Drawing on newspapers, magazines, legal cases, films and the papers and correspondence of physicians and surgeons, Lederer will challenge the assumptions of some bioethicists and policymakers that popular fears about organ transplantation necessarily reflect timeless human concerns and preoccupations with the body. She will show how notions of the body- intact, in parts, living and dead- are shaped by the particular culture in which they are embedded.
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- Hardcover: 240 pages
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 1 edition (April 24, 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0195161505
- ISBN-13: 978-0195161502
- Product Dimensions: 0.9 x 6.3 x 9.1 inches
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I practice Transfusion Medicine for a living, so this is right up "my alley". Terrific & very complete historical background both for blood transfusion and for tissue & organ transplantation. The author did a masterful job on the historical details.
By Phillip J. DeChristopher
Excellent, readable and scholarly review of issues regarding history of blood transfusion and organ transplant. One does not need to be a physician or scientist to appreciate this text. Great reference work. Great that Kindle edition is also available.
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