transplantation of organs, tissues, etc

The 1980s marked a revolution in the field of organ transplants, and Bud Shaw, M.D., who studied under Tom Starzl in Pittsburgh, was on the front lines. Now retired from active practice, Dr. Shaw relays gripping moments of anguish and elation, frustration and reward, despair and hope in his struggle to save patients. He reveals harshly intimate moments of his medical career: telling a patient's husband that his wife has died during surgery; struggling to complete a twenty-hour operation as mental and physical exhaustion inch closer and closer; and flying to retrieve a donor organ while the patient waits in the operating room. Within these more emotionally charged vignettes are quieter ones, too, like growing up in rural Ohio, and being awakened late at night by footsteps in the hall as his father, also a surgeon, slipped out of the house to attend to a patient in the ER.

Penny Landlow, seventeen, the overprotected daughter of a powerful crime family, has rarely left the family estate due to a blood disorder but when tragedy strikes and she is left alone in New York City, she must prove she is not as fragile as everyone believes.

Maisie is a normal sixteen-year-old, until an electrical fire caused by a lightning strike leaves her with severe burns, her face partially destroyed--she is lucky enough to get a full face transplant but she soon discovers how much her looks shaped her own identity and her relationship with those around her, including her boyfriend.

Thirteen essays present opposing arguments on issues regarding organ donation and transplants, including ethical questions, compensation for donation, the purchasing of organs, fundamental values, oversight of the U.S. transplant system, involuntary harvesting, animal-to-human transplants, and more.

Examines the misperceptions and legislation surrounding the selling of human organs, arguing that if moral and legal roadblocks to selling organs were removed, thousands of lives could be saved every year.

Recounts several historical attempts to transplant animal organs into humans and draws attention to the immense potential and promise of this form of therapy.

Studious, socially conscious Emerson Watts learns startling news about the family of Nikki Howard, the teen supermodel into whose body Emerson's brain was transplanted by the nefarious Stark corporation.

After dying at age sixteen, Travis Coates' head was removed and frozen for five years before being attached to another body, and now the old Travis and the new must find a way to coexist while figuring out changes in his relationships.

Contains over thirty articles from leaders in ethics, medicine, sociology, law, and politics in which they examine the issues surrounding the debate over human organ procurement and distribution.

Examines the history of transplants, including the first successful kidney transplant in 1954, and describes the scientific advances that were necessary for improving transplants, including donor matching and host tolerance, and discusses the ethical issues in the business of transplantation and organ donation.