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Flesh and blood : organ transplantation and blood transfusion in twentieth-century America /

Lederer, Susan E.

Flesh and blood : organ transplantation and blood transfusion in twentieth-century America / Susan E. Lederer. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008. - xvi, 224 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

9780195161502 (alk. paper) 0195161505 (alk. paper)

2007038548

101316776 DNLM


Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.--History--United States--20th century.
Blood--Transfusion--History--United States--20th century.

RD120.7 / .L42 2008

362.17/84

WO 11 AA1 / L473f 2008

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