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Previous Volume 359:1079-1080 September 4, 2008 Number 10

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By Susan E. Lederer. 224 pp., illustrated. New York, Oxford University Press, 2008. $35. ISBN 978-0-19-516150-2.

The transfer of blood components, solid tissues, or organs from one person to another is basic to the practice of modern medicine and surgery. Because the only source of blood and organs is the human body, transfusion and transplantation imply giving away and receiving parts of one's "self." Transfusion and transplantation therefore challenge the perception of self for both the donor and the recipient. Furthermore, some physicians may see in these measures opportunities to bring therapy to its most remote borders and convert surgical imagination into surgical reality.

Lederer sets out to explore "how the body and its parts — . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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