Twice dead : organ transplants and the reinvention of death /

Tales about organ transplants appear in mythology and folk stories, and surface in documents from medieval times, but only during the past twenty years has medical knowledge and technology been sufficiently advanced for surgeons to perform thousands of transplants each year

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Author / Creator: Lock, Margaret M. (Author)
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Berkeley ; Los Angeles ; London : University of California Press, [2002]
Series:California series in public anthropology ; 1.
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