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Flesh and blood : organ transplantation and blood transfusion in twentieth-century America / Susan E. Lederer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lederer, Susan E.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc--United States--History--20th century.
- Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.
- Blood--Transfusion--United States--History--20th century.
- Blood.
- Organ Transplantation--history.
- Blood--Transfusion.
- History.
- United States.
- Blood Transfusion--history.
- Blood Transfusion--psychology.
- History, 20th Century.
- Organ Transplantation--psychology.
- Social Change--history.
- Medical Subjects:
- Organ Transplantation--history.
- United States.
- Blood Transfusion--history.
- Blood Transfusion--psychology.
- History, 20th Century.
- Organ Transplantation--psychology.
- Social Change--history.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 224 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
- Contents:
- Living on the Island of Doctor Moreau : grafting tissues in the early twentieth century
- Miracles of resurrection : reinventing blood transfusion in the twentieth century
- Banking on the body
- Lost boundaries : race, blood, and bodies
- Are you my type? : blood groups, individuality, and difference
- Medicalizing miscegenation: transplantation and race
- Religious bodies
- Organ recital : transplantation and transfusion in historical perspective.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780195161502
- 0195161505
- OCLC:
- 173201758
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