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Paperback A Death Retold: Jesica Santillan, the Bungled Transplant, and Paradoxes of Medical Citizenship Book
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ISBN: 0807857734

ISBN13: 9780807857731

A Death Retold: Jesica Santillan, the Bungled Transplant, and Paradoxes of Medical Citizenship

(Part of the Studies in Social Medicine Series)

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In February 2003, an undocumented immigrant teen from Mexico lay dying in a prominent American hospital due to a stunning medical oversight--she had received a heart-lung transplantation of the wrong blood type. In the following weeks, Jesica Santillan's tragedy became a portal into the complexities of American medicine, prompting contentious debate about new patterns and old problems in immigration, the hidden epidemic of medical error, the lines...

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