Flesh and blood
Subtitle: organ transplantation and blood transfusion in twentieth-century America
By: Susan E. Lederer.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780195161502
Subjects: Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Blood -- Transfusion -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Organ Transplantation -- history -- United States; Blood Transfusion -- history -- United States; Blood Transfusion -- psychology -- United States; History, 20th Century -- United States; Organ Transplantation -- psychology -- United States; Social Change -- history -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Living on the Island of Doctor Moreau : grafting tissues in the early twentieth century; title: Miracles of resurrection : reinventing blood transfusion in the twentieth century; title: Banking on the body; title: Lost boundaries : race, blood, and bodies; title: Are you my type? : blood groups, individuality, and difference; title: Medicalizing miscegenation: transplantation and race; title: Religious bodies; title: Organ recital : transplantation and transfusion in historical perspective.