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

By: Lederer, Susan EContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008Description: xvi, 224 p. : illSubject(s): Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Blood -- Transfusion -- United States -- History -- 20th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 362.17/84 LOC classification: RD120.7 | .L42 2008Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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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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.

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