Flesh and blood [[electronic resource] ] : organ transplantation and blood transfusion in twentieth-century America / / Susan E. Lederer
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Lederer Susan E
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| Titolo: |
Flesh and blood [[electronic resource] ] : organ transplantation and blood transfusion in twentieth-century America / / Susan E. Lederer
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xvi, 224 p. ) : ill |
| Disciplina: | 362.17/84 |
| Soggetto topico: | Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc - United States - History - 20th century |
| Blood - Transfusion - United States - History - 20th century | |
| Note generali: | Formerly CIP. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Bringing together the histories of blood transfusion and organ transplantation, this book shows how these two fields redrew the lines between self and non-self, the living and the dead, and humans and animals. Lederer also challenges assumptions that popular fears about organ transplantation necessarily reflect timeless human concerns. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Flesh and blood |
| ISBN: | 0-19-770674-6 |
| 1-282-54366-0 | |
| 9786612543661 | |
| 0-19-972191-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910781185303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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