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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

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lock, Margaret M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley ; Los Angeles ; London : University of California Press, [2002]
Colección:California series in public anthropology ; 1.
Temas:
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. > Japan.
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. > North America.
Brain death > Japan.
Brain death > North America.
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.
Brain death.
Organ Transplantation
Transplants
Brain Death
Tissue Transplantation
Transplantation
Greffe (Chirurgie) > Japon.
Greffe (Chirurgie) > Amérique du Nord.
Mort cérébrale > Japon.
Mort cérébrale > Amérique du Nord.
Greffe (Chirurgie)
Mort cérébrale.
MEDICAL > Surgery > Plastic & Cosmetic.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
Transplantatie.
Hersendood.
Antropologische aspecten.
Japan.
North America.
Verenigde Staten.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario: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
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xii, 429 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-415) and index
ISBN:9780520926714
0520926714

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