Flesh and blood organ transplantation and blood transfusion in twentieth-century America

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 pape...

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Glavni autor: Lederer, Susan E.
Daljnji autori: Susan E. Lederer
Jezik:Undetermined
English
Izdano: Oxford,New York Oxford University Press 2008
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Opis
Sažetak: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
Opis:xvi, 224 p.
ill.
25 cm
ISBN:0195161505
9780195161502