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

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ISBN-13: 9780195161502 Publisher: Oxford University Press Publication date: 04/24/2008 Edition description: New Edition Pages: 240 Product dimensions: 9.20(w) x 6.40(h) x 0.90(d) 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

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