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 / [electronic resource] : Susan E. Lederer. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008. - xvi, 224 p. : ill.

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.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.





DNLM


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


Electronic books.

RD120.7 / .L42 2008

362.17/84