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Author: Susan E. Lederer
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0195161505
Category: Medical

Flesh and Blood: Organ Transplantation and Blood Transfusion in 20th Century America

Organ transplantation is one of the most dramatic interventions in modern medicine. Download Flesh and Blood medical books for free.
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 Get Flesh and Blood our bestseller medical books.

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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'
This book will be the first to bring together the histories of blood transfusion and

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