Flesh and Blood: Organ Transplantation and Blood Transfusion in Twentieth-Century America
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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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0195161505
ISBN13:9780195161502
Release Date:April 2008
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Length:240 Pages
Weight:1.10 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"
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