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The Transplant Patient: Biological, Psychiatric, and Ethical Issues in Organ Transplantation
enlarge	Creators: Paula T. Trzepacz, Andrea F. DiMartini Publisher: Cambridge University Press Category: Book Buy New: $140.00 as of 11/7/2009 14:34 PST details New (14) Used (7) from $96.64 Seller: Amazon.com Media: Hardcover Edition: 1 Pages: 311 Number Of Items: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4 Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.8 ISBN: 0521553547 Dewey Decimal Number: 617.95 EAN: 9780521553544 ASIN: 0521553547 Publication Date: April 15, 2000 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours


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Editorial Reviews: Product Description Over the past forty years transplantation has developed from a laboratory based experimental procedure to a clinical commonplace. Transplantation raises issues of patient screening and selection, quality of life for recipients, living donors and their families, cognitive changes associated with transplantation, ethical considerations, and the impact of immunological and pharmacological changes associated with the procedure. This complex of issues affects clinicians from a wide range of disciplines and is the focus of consultation-liaison psychiatry and this book. Pittsburgh, where many of the contributors are based, was and is still a pioneering center for organ transplantation. Dr. Thomas Starzl, who gives an overview of the field, is one of the founding fathers of transplantation surgery. Book Description Over the last forty years transplantation has developed from a laboratory based experimental procedure to a clinical commonplace. Transplantation raises issues of patient screening and selection, quality of life for recipients, living donors and their families, cognitive changes associated with transplantation, ethical considerations, and the impact of immunological and pharmacological changes asociated with the procedure. This complex of issues affects clinicians from an range of disciplines and is the focus of this book, an interdisciplinary approach to transplantation.

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