Flesh and Blood

Organ Transplantation and Blood Transfusion in 20th Century America

Susan E. Lederer (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2008
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-516150-2 (ISBN)

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Organ transplantation is one of the most dramatic interventions in modern medicine. Since the 1950s thousands of people have lived with 'new' hearts, kidneys, lungs, corneas, and other organs and tissues transplanted into their bodies. From the beginning, though, there was simply a problem: surgeons often encountered shortages of people willing and able to give their organs and tissues. To overcome this problem, they often brokered financial arrangements. Yet an ethic of gift exchange coexisted with the 'commodification of the body'. The same duality characterized the field of blood transfusion, which was essential to the development of modern surgery.

This book is the first to bring together the histories of blood transfusion and organ transplantation. It shows how these two fields redrew the lines between self and non-self, the living and the dead, and humans and animals. Drawing on newspapers, magazines, legal cases, films and the papers and correspondence of physicians and surgeons, Lederer challenges the assumptions of some bioethicists and policymakers that popular fears about organ transplantation necessarily reflect timeless human concerns and preoccupations with the body. She shows how notions of the body- intact, in parts, living and dead- are shaped by the particular culture in which they are embedded.

Susan E. Lederer is the Robert Turell Professor of the History of Medicine and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, where she is the chair of the Department of Medical History and Bioethics. A historian of American medicine, she has written extensively on the history of animal and human experimentation. Her books include Subjected to Science: Human Experimentation in America Before the Second World War (1995), and Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature (Rutgers UP, 2002), and she was a contributor to The Human Radiation Experiments: Final Report of the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments (Oxford University Press, 1996).

1. Living on the Island of Doctor Moreau: Surgeons and the Body ; 2. Miracles of Resurrection: Reinventing Blood Transfusion ; 3. Banking on the Body ; 4. Lost Boundaries: Race, Blood and Bodies ; 5. Are You My Type?: Blood Groups, Individuality and Identity ; 6. Medicalizing Miscegenation?: Transplantation and Race ; 7. Religious Bodies ; 8. Organ Recital: Transplantation and Transfusion in Historical Perspective

Erscheint lt. Verlag	26.6.2008
Zusatzinfo	15 black and white illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	163 x 234 mm
Gewicht	476 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Chirurgie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10	0-19-516150-5 / 0195161505
ISBN-13	978-0-19-516150-2 / 9780195161502
Zustand	Neuware