Organ Transplantation: Meanings and Realities

By: Youngner, Stuart

Book Overview

In transplantation, the living parts of a person are offered in life or death to others, known or unknown, who are in the end stages of grave illness. Donated organs are implanted not only in the bodies of recipients, but in their beings. This thought-provoking book, a collaboration among an exceptional group of scholars and physicians, ponders the far-reaching connections of transplantation to human experiences and raises questions that are at once...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299149641
• ISBN13: 9780299149642
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"