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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2008Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (241 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780199721917
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Flesh and BloodDDC classification:
  • 362.17/84
LOC classification:
  • RD120.7.L42 2008
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Living on the Island of Dr. Moreau: Grafting Tissues in the Early Twentieth Century -- 2 Miracles of Resurrection: Reinventing Blood Transfusion in the Twentieth Century -- 3 Banking on the Body -- 4 Lost Boundaries: Race, Blood, and Bodies -- 5 Are You My Type? Blood Groups, Individuality, and Difference -- 6 Medicalizing Miscegenation: Transplantation and Race -- 7 Religious Bodies -- 8 Organ Recital: Transplantation and Transfusion in Historical Perspective -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
Summary: 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. 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.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Living on the Island of Dr. Moreau: Grafting Tissues in the Early Twentieth Century -- 2 Miracles of Resurrection: Reinventing Blood Transfusion in the Twentieth Century -- 3 Banking on the Body -- 4 Lost Boundaries: Race, Blood, and Bodies -- 5 Are You My Type? Blood Groups, Individuality, and Difference -- 6 Medicalizing Miscegenation: Transplantation and Race -- 7 Religious Bodies -- 8 Organ Recital: Transplantation and Transfusion in Historical Perspective -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

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. 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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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