A death retold : Jesica Santillan, the bungled transplant, and paradoxes of medical citizenship /

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In February 2003, an undocumented immigrant teenager from Mexico lay dying in a prominent American hospital due to a stunning medical oversight - she had received a heart-lung transplantation of the wrong blood type. In the following weeks, Jesica Santillan's tragedy became a portal into the co...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Wailoo, Keith, Livingston, Julie, Guarnaccia, Peter Joseph
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2006.
Colección:Studies in social medicine.
Temas:
Santillan, Jesica.
Santillan, Jesica
Heart > Transplantation > United States.
Lungs > Transplantation > United States.
Blood > Transfusion > Complications > United States.
Teenage immigrants > Medical care > United States.
Cœur > Greffe > États-Unis.
Adolescents immigrants > Soins médicaux > États-Unis.
MEDICAL > Surgery > General.
MEDICAL > Ethics.
Blood > Transfusion > Complications.
Heart > Transplantation.
Lungs > Transplantation.
United States.
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