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Transplantation is one of the most complex and challenging enterprises of modern medicine. Despite recent progress in surgical techniques and immunosuppressive strategies, the wide-ranging societal, ethical, and psychological implications of transferring donor organs to recipients with life-threatening diseases are still poorly understood. This book takes up these problems where the pioneering treatise of Roberta G. Simmons and colleagues left off 20 years ago (Gift of Life: The Social and Psychological Impact of Organ Transplantation. New York, Wiley, 1977). In addition to affirming and extending Simmons and colleagues' descriptions of the psychological aspects of renal transplantation, the new book deals
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