| Description |
xvi, 224 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| 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 |
| Summary |
"Flesh and Blood is the first book that considers the cultural history of two of the most dramatic surgical interventions of the twentieth century. Rather than simply focusing on the technical and scientific aspects of blood transfusion and organ transplantation, this study also examines how patients, families, and physicians confronted the social dimensions of using skin shaved from the bodies of others, taking sexual organs from others, including apes and monkeys, and "crossing the color line" in transfusion or transplantation between white and black Americans. The book explores how the body and its parts - organs, tissues, cells and fluids - possess not just medical and surgical significance, but have accrued complex political and social meaning, and it examines how transplantation and transfusion have redrawn the lines between self and non-self."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Blood -- Transfusion -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Organ Transplantation -- history.
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Blood Transfusion -- history.
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Blood Transfusion -- psychology.
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History, 20th Century.
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Organ Transplantation -- psychology.
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Social Change -- history.
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| SUBJECT |
United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 |
| LC no. |
2007038548 |
| ISBN |
9780195161502 (alk. paper) |
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0195161505 (alk. paper) |
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