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Flesh and Blood - Organ Transplantation and Blood Transfusion in 20th Century America (Hardcover)
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Flesh and Blood - Organ Transplantation and Blood Transfusion in 20th Century America (Hardcover)
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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.
This book will be the first to bring together the histories of
blood transfusion and organ transplantation. It will show how these
two fields redrew the lines between self and non-self, the living
and the dead, and humans and animals. Drawing on newspapers,
magazines, legal cases, films and the papers and correspondence of
physicians and surgeons, Lederer will challenge the assumptions of
some bioethicists and policymakers that popular fears about organ
transplantation necessarily reflect timeless human concerns and
preoccupations with the body. She will show how notions of the
body- intact, in parts, living and dead- are shaped by the
particular culture in which they are embedded.
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