Kids Library Home

Welcome to the Kids' Library!

Search for books, movies, music, magazines, and more.

     
Available items only
E-Book/E-Doc
Author Lederer, Susan E.

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

Imprint Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Copies

Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xvi, 224 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Blood -- Transfusion -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780195161502 (alk. paper)
0195161505 (alk. paper)

 
    
Available items only