| 1. |  | Handbook of Kidney Transplantation, 4th Edition
from Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Price: $58.50
Customer Review:
I am a nephrologist-in-training in Los Angeles. During our renal transplant months, this is the only book I carry around.
It has everything a nephrology fellow needs to know about transplant: including transplant selection, periop and postop complications, types and treatment of rejection, all... more info | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 2. |  | Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death (Public Anthropology)
from University of California Press
Price: $23.35
Customer Review:
Margaret Lock discusses how organ transplant interests fostered the notion of brain death in North America and Japan. Until recently, Japan did not accept brain death as a sufficient criterion of death, even when the Japanese had all the technology and medical skills to carry out organ... more info | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 3. |  | The Puzzle People: Memoirs Of A Transplant Surgeon
from University of Pittsburgh Press
Price: $18.96
Customer Review:
This book, by transplantation pioneer Dr. Thomas Starzl, is an easy read, a wonderfully inspiring story, and an interesting history of modern surgical medicine. I was compelled to write the review because of several reviews that disparage Dr. Starzl and this book.The book is an inspirational... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 4. |  | The Ethics of Organ Transplants: The Current Debate (Contemporary Issues (Buffalo, N.Y.).)
from Prometheus Books
Price: $20.70
Customer Review:
I have gone through a very emotional period in which twice, I thought I was going to be a living organ donor. Once it was to have been a kidney and the other time a lobe of my liver. Each time, I was unable to undergo the surgery. My liver's blood vessels are in the way, thus the surgeon cannot... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 5. |  | Spare Parts: Organ Replacement in American Society
from Oxford University Press, USA
Price: $59.99
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| 6. |  | Raising the Dead: Organ Transplants, Ethics, and Society
from Oxford University Press, USA
Price: $59.95
Customer Review:
There is no question to my mind that an organ or tissue transplant can be a life-giving and life-changing miracle for a recipient. I am one who should know this; after all, since 1990 I have had the benefit of two cadaveric kidney transplants. I know from experience the transforming power that a... more info | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 7. |  | Solid Organ Transplantation: A Handbook for Primary Health Care Providers
from Springer Publishing Company
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| 8. |  | Organ Transplants: Making the Most of Your Gift of Life
from Patient Centered Guides
Price: $14.96
Customer Review:
This book was the only one of its kind for a long time. In fact, I found it years after my father's liver transplant, and found it helpful even "after the fact."
With new information coming out daily, and treatments progressing so rapidly, I continue to keep an eye out for more books on the... more info | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 9. |  | Kidney for Sale by Owner: Human Organs, Transplantation, and the Mark
from Georgetown University Press
Price: $29.35
Customer Review:
If one asked me how I felt about selling ones organ's for profit a few months ago I would have surely said that it would be an immoral act indeed. However, after reading cherry's book I cannot, on a philosophical basis, find any flaws in his logic. A fun and interesting read. | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 10. |  | Transplantation Ethics
from Georgetown Univ Pr
Customer Review:
This book is the best in transplantation ethics. Prof. Veatch wrote an oustanding text. He review all areas and approaches in this important issue. He corrects many wrong information about transplantation cases, like Mickey Mantle liver transplantation. It's a very usefull and well writen book. | 5.0 / 5.0
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