Flesh and blood : a cultural history of transplantation and transfusion in twentieth-century America / Susan E. Lederer.

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...

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Main Author: Lederer, Susan E.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
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