Flesh and Blood : Organ Transplantation and Blood Transfusion in 20th Century America.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (241 pages)
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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Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Blood -- Transfusion -- United States -- History -- 20th century.