291 Pages
by
Routledge
292 Pages
by
Routledge
283 Pages
by
Routledge
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Spare Parts examines major developments in the field of organ replacement that occurred in the United States over the course of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s. It focuses upon significant medical and social changes in the transplantation of human organs and on the development and clinical testing of the Jarvik-7 artificial heart, with special emphasis on how these biomedical events... Read more
Organ Transplantation: Patterns and Issues in the 1980s; 1: Of Wonder Drugs, the Transplant “Boom,” and Moratoria; 2: Organ Transplantation as Gift Exchange; 3: Alterations in the Theme of the Gift; 4: Transplantation and the Medical Commons; The Jarvik-7 Artificial Heart Experiment; 5: Desperate Appliance: A Short History of the Jarvik-7 Artificial Heart; 6: “Made in the U.S.A.”: American Features in the Rise and Fall of the Jarvik-7 Artificial Heart; 7: Who Shall Guard the Guardians?; The Participant Observers: Final Journeys; 8: Leaving the Field
Biography
Renee C. Fox
