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1 online resource (291 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Contents; INTRODUCTION TO THE TRANSACTION EDITION: SPARE PARTS TWO DECADES LATER; INTRODUCTION: REBUILDING PEOPLE; I Organ Transplantation: Patterns and Issues in the 1980s; 1. Of Wonder Drugs, the Transplant "Boom," and Moratoria; The ""Advent" of Cyclosporine; The Expansion of Organ Transplantation; The Experiment-Therapy Status of Organ Transplantation; A Multiplicity of Clinical Moratoria; Baby Fae; Anencephalic Donors; Cluster Transplants; Brain Tissue Implants; The Coming of FK 506 |
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2. Organ Transplantation as Gift ExchangeMarcel Mauss' Gift-Exchange Paradigm; Obligations to Give Organs; Obligations to Receive Organs and Patients' Reservations About Accepting Them; Obligations to Receive Organs and Surgeons ' Reservations About Live Donations; Obligations to Repay the Gift of Life" and the Tyranny of the Gift, -- 3. Alterations in the Theme of the Gift; Who Are My Kin? Who Are My Strangers? Live-Donor Kidney Transplants; The Debut of Live-Donor Liver and Lung Transplants; Making a Live Donor: Bone Marrow Transplants; Efforts to Increase Gifts of Life |
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Explaining the Organ ShortageRequired Request; Conceptual Confusion and Emotional Unease About Brain Death; "Transplantation Depends on Death"; From Gifts of Life to Market Commodities?; Selling the Gift; Body Parts as Market Commodities; 4. Transplantation and the Medical Commons; The Transplantation Commons; Favoritism Shrouds Presby Transplants; Woman Passed Over After 3-Year Wait; Transplantation and the Medical Commons; Transplantation, Medicine, and the Societal Commons; II The Jarvik-7 Artificial Heart Experiment; 5. Desperate Appliance: A Short History of the Jarvik-Artificial Heart |
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Cast of Characters and Their LocalesThe Surgeon-Implanters; The Jarvik Artificial Heart Developers; The Patients Implanted with Permanent Jarvik-7 Hearts (Chronological Order); Featured Roles (Alphabetical Order, by Locale); Nurses, technicians, physicians, social workers, public relations staff, and other members of the artificial heart group; Nurses, technicians, physicians, social workers, and other members of the artificialheart group, and the administrative and public relations staff at Audubon Hospital and the Humana Corporation; Prologue; The Night Barney Clark Died |
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Field- Workers in the Land o f OzAct I: The Development of the Jarvik Heart; The NIH Artificial Heart Program; ""Kolffs Heart"; The Move from the Laboratory to the Clinic; Act II: Barney Clark's Heart; Postmortem; Act III: The Move to Humana; Act IV: The Experiment Continues; William Schroeder: The Second Implant; Murray Haydon: The Third Implant; Entr'acte: The Artificial Heart as a Bridge to Transplant; Act IV: Continued; Leif Stenberg: The Fourth Implant; Jack Burcham: The Fifth Implant; Lengthening Shadows: April 1985 to June 1986; Act V: Endings; August 1986; April 1987; May 1987 |
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June 1987 |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Swazey, Judith P
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Fox, Renee C
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| ISBN |
9781351488532 |
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1351488538 |
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