Flesh and blood : organ transplantation and blood transfusion in twentieth-century America
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Flesh and blood : organ transplantation and blood transfusion in twentieth-century America
Oxford University Press, 2008
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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内容説明
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.
目次
- 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
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