organ transplantation and blood transfusion in twentieth-century America /
First Statement of Responsibility
Susan E. Lederer.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Oxford University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2008.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xvi, 224 pages :
Other Physical Details
illustrations ;
Dimensions
25 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"Flesh and Blood is the first book that considers the cultural history of two of the most dramatic surgical interventions of the twentieth century. Rather than simply focusing on the technical and scientific aspects of blood transfusion and organ transplantation, this study also examines how patients, families, and physicians confronted the social dimensions of using skin shaved from the bodies of others, taking sexual organs from others, including apes and monkeys, and "crossing the color line" in transfusion or transplantation between white and black Americans. The book explores how the body and its parts - organs, tissues, cells and fluids - possess not just medical and surgical significance, but have accrued complex political and social meaning, and it examines how transplantation and transfusion have redrawn the lines between self and non-self."--BOOK JACKET.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Blood-- Transfusion-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.-- United States-- History-- 20th century.