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Download or read book Transplant written by Gerald G. Neufeld and published by Novel Voices Press. This book was released on 2012-01-16 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Organ Thieves written by Chip Jones and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks meets Get Out in this “startling…powerful” (Kirkus Reviews) investigation of racial inequality at the core of the heart transplant race. In 1968, Bruce Tucker, a black man, went into Virginia’s top research hospital with a head injury, only to have his heart taken out of his body and put into the chest of a white businessman. Now, in The Organ Thieves, Pulitzer Prize–nominated journalist Chip Jones exposes the horrifying inequality surrounding Tucker’s death and how he was used as a human guinea pig without his family’s permission or knowledge. The circumstances surrounding his death reflect the long legacy of mistreating African Americans that began more than a century before with cadaver harvesting and worse. It culminated in efforts to win the heart transplant race in the late 1960s. Featuring years of research and fresh reporting, along with a foreword from social justice activist Ben Jealous, “this powerful book weaves together a medical mystery, a legal drama, and a sweeping history, its characters confronting unprecedented issues of life and death under the shadows of centuries of racial injustice” (Edward L. Ayers, author of The Promise of the New South).
Download or read book Transplant written by Nicholas L. Tilney and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on firsthand experience, a pioneer in organ transplantation discussesthe amazing advances in the field. 53 illustrations.
Book Synopsis The Hearts of a Girl by : Jessica Carmel
Download or read book The Hearts of a Girl written by Jessica Carmel and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting medical memoir about a family’s journey through multiple surgeries, and a determined battle for survival. Jessica Carmel was born with a severe congenital heart condition. When she was just four days old, her parents learned she would need heart surgery. They had no idea that her future held multiple surgeries and even more unexpected challenges. Sixteen years later, as Jessica sat in her cardiologist’s office for a routine checkup, he told her and her mom that there was nothing more he could do for her. Jessica needed a heart transplant. Three weeks later, Jessica underwent heart transplant surgery. Her recovery was long, but good—but about ten years later, she learned that she was in desperate need of a new kidney. Her only hope of survival was her sister, Amy—who heroically offered up one of her own kidneys. Now their mother would be seeing both of her daughters off to the operating room . . . This remarkable story of one young woman’s journey through the medical maze—including financial struggles and battles with insurance companies—and a family’s determination to survive and thrive together, is both an informative, fascinating look at health care and an uplifting, inspiring read.
Book Synopsis The Transplant Imaginary by : Lesley A. Sharp
Download or read book The Transplant Imaginary written by Lesley A. Sharp and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Transplant Imaginary, author Lesley Sharp explores the extraordinarily surgically successful realm of organ transplantation, which is plagued worldwide by the scarcity of donated human parts, a quandary that generates ongoing debates over the marketing of organs as patients die waiting for replacements. These widespread anxieties within and beyond medicine over organ scarcity inspire seemingly futuristic trajectories in other fields. Especially prominent, longstanding, and promising domains include xenotransplantation, or efforts to cull fleshy organs from animals for human use, and bioengineering, a field peopled with “tinkerers” intent on designing implantable mechanical devices, where the heart is of special interest. Scarcity, suffering, and sacrifice are pervasive and, seemingly, inescapable themes that frame the transplant imaginary. Xenotransplant experts and bioengineers at work in labs in five Anglophone countries share a marked determination to eliminate scarcity and human suffering, certain that their efforts might one day altogether eliminate any need for parts of human origin. A premise that drives Sharp’s compelling ethnographic project is that high-stakes experimentation inspires moral thinking, informing scientists’ determination to redirect the surgical trajectory of transplantation and, ultimately, alter the integrity of the human form.
Book Synopsis Uterus Transplantation by : Mats Brännström
Download or read book Uterus Transplantation written by Mats Brännström and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-30 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses all aspects of the uterus transplantation procedure in women who are childless because of a dysfunctional or missing uterus, from initial pre-operative investigations to follow-up after the uterine graft has been removed. All the international experts who are engaged in clinical activities and/or research in this field have contributed one or more of the book’s chapters. Since the first live birth following uterus transplantation was reported in Sweden in September 2014, the field has been rapidly evolving around the globe: the first cases in USA, Germany, China, Brazil, and Czech Republic were performed in 2016 and several other centres are preparing for clinical trials of uterus transplantation. Uterus transplantation is a subject that attracts the attention of many bioethicists, and like all other major procedures in transplantation surgery and assisted reproduction techniques, it is a complex process that requires a multidisciplinary team if it is to be successful. As such the book is a valuable resource not only for clinicians from many disciplines, but also for nurses, ethicists, psychologists and researchers.
Book Synopsis The Transplanted Woman by : Gabriell Varro
Download or read book The Transplanted Woman written by Gabriell Varro and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1988-03-25 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique and fascinating study centers on the experiences of expatriate American women married to French men, residing in France, and struggling to maintain American language and culture in their French-American children. More than a narrow study, The Transplanted Woman aims at illustrating the general dynamics of family groups. Three main, overlapping fields of sociological inquiry are included: the family, bilingualism, and women's studies. This is a rare exploration into an international situation where the two languages and cultures considered are on an equal footing rather than in a dominant/dominated relation to one another. New emphasis is placed on the critical role of the father in supporting or undermining the authority of the mother in the transmission of the mother's language and culture. The bicultural family laboratory facilitates the understanding the choices which orient children's identities--in doing so revealing the distribution of power between the parental couple and demonstrating how parents compete for control of their children's allegiance and identities.
Book Synopsis Core Concepts in Renal Transplantation by : Anil Chandraker
Download or read book Core Concepts in Renal Transplantation written by Anil Chandraker and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-02-02 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though kidney transplantation is considered a routine procedure, there are still significant challenges in post-transplant management. Core Concepts in Renal Transplantation is a clinically focused authoritative guide to the management of kidney transplantation. This comprehensive, state-of-the-art reference summarizes the recent changes in the field of transplantation, offering the complete range of up-to-date information on all the various aspects of basic immunobiology and the medical care of the transplant recipient. Written by a team of renowned authorities in renal transplantation, this concise resource is intended for both the nephrologist and the non-specialist with an interest in kidney transplantation.
Book Synopsis My Transplanted Life by : Addison Patrick
Download or read book My Transplanted Life written by Addison Patrick and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-25 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two transplant recipients meet and fall in love, unaware that the young woman who gave them their gifts is with them in more ways than one ... Heather Lincoln has always lived in a world shaped by her size. But after moving to a new town and beginning her final year of high school, she meets some people who begin to help her change, who begin to help her see she's worthy of friendship, respect, and maybe even romantic love. But on the night her transformation to a new and better version of herself looks imminent, she retreats to who she had been and unwittingly leads herself to an early and unexpected demise. That, though, is just the beginning .... When Heather's heart is transplanted into Melissa, a young reporter and writer, and her cornea is transplanted into Gabe, a man who works with troubled teens, Heather lives life again through these two people. And in doing so, she is reconnected with those she knew when she was alive. Through this second chance, Heather learns about true love - the love between a man and a woman, the love of friendships forged in fire, and the love of self. It is after her death that Heather truly lives.
Download or read book Sick Girl written by Amy Silverstein and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2008-10-13 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This shockingly frank and irreverent memoir of a young woman’s life with a heart transplant “will inspire and choke you up with tears and laughter” (Larry King). At twenty-four, Amy Silverstein was your typical type-A law student: smart, driven, and highly competitive. With a full course load and a budding romance, it seemed nothing could slow her down. Until her heart began to fail. With a grace and force reminiscent of Lucy Grealy’s Autobiography of a Face or Susanna Kaysen’s Girl, Interrupted, Amy chronicles her medical saga from the first misdiagnosis to her astonishing and ongoing recovery. Her memoir is made all the more dramatic by the deliriously romantic bedside courtship with her future husband, and her uncompromising desire to become a mother. Distrustful of her doctors and insistent in her refusal to be the “grateful heart patient” she is expected to be, Amy presents a patient’s perspective that is truly eye-opening and even controversial. Amy’s shocking honesty and irreverent humor allow the reader to live her nightmare from the inside—an unforgettable experience that is both painfully disturbing and utterly compelling.
Book Synopsis Composite Tissue Allograft by : Hakim Nadey S
Download or read book Composite Tissue Allograft written by Hakim Nadey S and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2006-05-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first textbook of its kind dealing with composite tissue allograft and allograft transplantation, provides an excellent overview on the subject. It provides a clear description of the current status of the transplant of every composite tissue allograft already performed and others which are still at the basic experimental level.The editors of the book, who also contribute chapters in their expertise, are world renowned surgeons. This book opens with an introductory chapter on the history of this type of transplantation and then details the clinical experience in each graft such as hand, larynx, face, uterus and the related histopathology, immunosuppression and immunomodulation.A multidisciplinary and comprehensive presentation of the various aspects of this new area of transplantation will allow the reader to understand the complexity and the challenges of composite tissue transplantation. A number of important topics are analyzed and discussed in detail, such as the ethical, medicolegal, psychological and immunological implications. New rehabilitation techniques and strategies, together with innovative tools for the functional evaluation of the transplanted parts, are highlighted. A section on the experimental work underlines what lies ahead of us./a
Book Synopsis Janeway's Immunobiology by : Kenneth Murphy
Download or read book Janeway's Immunobiology written by Kenneth Murphy and published by Garland Science. This book was released on 2010-06-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Janeway's Immunobiology CD-ROM, Immunobiology Interactive, is included with each book, and can be purchased separately. It contains animations and videos with voiceover narration, as well as the figures from the text for presentation purposes.
Book Synopsis Strange Harvest by : Lesley A. Sharp
Download or read book Strange Harvest written by Lesley A. Sharp and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-10-04 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illuminates the wondrous yet disquieting medical realm of organ transplantation by drawing on the voices of those most deeply involved: transplant recipients, clinical specialists, and the surviving kin of deceased organ donors. This ethnographic study explores how these parties think about death, loss, and mourning.
Book Synopsis A Change of Heart by : Claire Sylvia
Download or read book A Change of Heart written by Claire Sylvia and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 1998-03-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a heart and lung transplant operation, dancer Claire Sylvia discovered that new organs were not the only thing she inherited. Never having liked such foods as beer and chicken nuggets, she suddenly started craving them. After an extraordinary dream, she seeks out the family of her donor -- a teenaged boy who died in a motorcycle accident -- and learns that it is indeed possible for two souls to merge in one body. "This is a story that must be told and heard...a fascinating example of how cellular memory can outlive physical death". -- Deepak Chopra, M.D.
Download or read book The Transplant Girl written by and published by Akua Kezia. This book was released on 2018-07-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deeply emotional true story containing a series of traumatic experiences when a young, troubled schoolgirl must face the harsh reality of life vs death. Akua undergoes life-threatening surgery that changes her life forever. She begins to shut herself away from the world and drowns in her deepest darkest thoughts. Her world comes crashing down until she meets a young man who begins to fill her empty life with meaning. He knows nothing about her past so she must choose between keeping her life a secret and letting him in... Which does she choose?
Book Synopsis Underwood's Pathology by : Simon Cross
Download or read book Underwood's Pathology written by Simon Cross and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2018-03-09 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Underwood’s Pathology (formerly General and Systematic Pathology) is an internationally popular and highly acclaimed textbook, written and designed principally for students of medicine and the related health sciences. Pathology is presented in the context of modern cellular and molecular biology and contemporary clinical practice. After a clear introduction to basic principles, it provides comprehensive coverage of disease mechanisms and the pathology of specific disorders ordered by body system. An unrivalled collection of clinical photographs, histopathology images and graphics complement the clear, concise text. For this seventh edition, the entire book has been revised and updated. Well liked features to assist problem-based learning – including body diagrams annotated with signs, symptoms and diseases and a separate index of common clinical problems – have been retained and refreshed. The advent of whole genome sequencing and increased knowledge of the genetics of disease has been recognised by updated sections in many chapters. Download the enhanced eBook version (from studentconsult.com) for anytime access to the complete contents plus bonus learning materials, including: clinical case studies – to help apply essential principles to modern practice the fully revised, interactive self-assessment section with over 200 questions and answers – to check your understanding and aid exam preparation especially produced video and podcast tutorials – to further explain and bring to life key topics bonus pathology crosswords – to recall key words and topics in a fun and interactive way This all combines to make Underwood’s an unsurpassed learning package in this fascinating and most central medical specialty. From reviews of previous editions: "...it truly is an outstanding textbook...highly recommended" Histopathology "...no doubt it will remain a bestseller – excellent value for undergraduates" Journal of Clinical Pathology "A book of this kind deserves a wide readership" Modern Pathology ".. the definitive textbook of pathology...expands on previous success and cements its position as the market leader for undergraduate pathology" The Bulletin A prize winner: Previous editions have won First Prize in the Medical Writers Group of the Society of Authors Awards, the British Book Design and Production Awards and the British Medical Association Student Textbook Award.
Book Synopsis Thanks For My Kidney, Mum! by : Kay Allardyce
Download or read book Thanks For My Kidney, Mum! written by Kay Allardyce and published by . This book was released on 2023-08-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heartfelt and inspiring story of one young woman's brave and adventurous attitude of living each day to the full, following a life-changing diagnosis of chronic kidney disease (CKD). In this hard-to-put-down memoir, Kay Allardyce shares her journey with CKD, describing the years leading up to and undergoing a kidney transplant. Her roller-coaster ride of emotions includes diary extracts detailing her lived experience of having a pre-emptive organ transplant, receiving a donated kidney from her mother and her post-operative recovery. Undertaking a charity bike ride from London to Paris mere months after transplant surgery is just one example of Kay's uplifting ambition to embrace the gift of life an organ donation can bring. She expresses her experience of pregnancy and giving birth to two children following her kidney transplant and offers invaluable information and sources of support for women with kidney disease. This beautifully candid and heart-warming memoir will educate, inform and inspire you to live the life you deserve.