Flesh and blood [[electronic resource] ] : organ transplantation and blood transfusion in twentieth-century America / / Susan E. Lederer

• Autore: Lederer Susan E
• 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
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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: 1-282-54366-0; 9786612543661; 0-19-972191-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910456504803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II