Flesh and Blood: Organ Transplantation and Blood Transfusion in Twentieth-Century America

by 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: 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"