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Organ Transplantation: Meanings And Realities
enlarge	Author: Stuart Youngner Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Category: Book List Price: ~~$22.95~~ Buy Used: $2.98 as of 11/21/2009 01:26 PST details You Save: $19.97 (87%) New (6) Used (14) from $2.98 Seller: fpugh Media: Paperback Edition: 1 Pages: 312 Number Of Items: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 1 Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.1 x 0.7 ISBN: 0299149641 Dewey Decimal Number: 617.95 EAN: 9780299149642 ASIN: 0299149641 Publication Date: April 1, 1996 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days


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Editorial Reviews: Product Description In transplantation, the living parts of a person are offered in life or death to others, known or unknown, who are in the end stages of grave illness. Donated organs are implanted not only in the bodies of recipients, but in their beings. This thought-provoking book, a collaboration among an exceptional group of scholars and physicians, ponders the far-reaching connections of transplantation to human experiences and raises questions that are at once elemental and transcendent. It explores matters of life and death, body and mind, psyche and soul, self and other. Sponsored by the Chicago-based Park Ridge Center for the Study of Health, Faith, and Ethics, the volume is the result of extended discussions among a group encompassing many religious and cultural traditions and many fields of expertise: philosophy, art, religion, folklore, psychiatry, anthropology, literature, history, social psychology, and surgery. Whether considering scientific advances in organ transplantation and their implications for medical morality, ambiguous images of organ transplantation in centuries of art and literature, the practices of organ procurement, or the complex bonds that are forged between donors, recipients, and their families, these essays carry our understanding beyond the typical scientific and pragmatic issues raised in discussions of bioethics and public policy. Organ Transplantation: Meanings and Realities enriches our social discourse by revealing some of transplantations most profound and hidden truths. An exciting and significant contribution to the literature on organ transplantation, timely in its pursuit of understanding the complicated meanings associated with organ donation and transplantation.Patricia Marshall, Loyola University of Chicago, Stritch School of Medicine A beautifully written and very interesting book. Almost every aspect of the transplantation process is considered in detail.Norman E. Shumway, M.D.

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