An up-and-coming musician gets into a fateful helicopter crash with his twin brother--a keeper of government secrets--and survives only after a transplant gives him half of his brother's brain.
While reporting a story from India, a New York television journalist has his left hand eaten by a lion and finds his life forever changed when he becomes the first person to receive a hand transplant.
Mortimer Mortensen, a secret agent who travels through time to prevent thieves and saboteurs from rewriting history, uncovers a plot to steal human organs from living victims.
The lives of a medical student who lost a lung while undergoing treatment at a Brazilian hospital, a private eye investigating the death of a man who seems to have been an involuntary bone marrow donor, and a scientist suffering from an incurable disease are linked by their unknown ties to an illegal transplant organ trade.
inside America's underground trade in human remains
Cheney, Annie
2006
Exposes the underground trade in corpses and human body parts in the U.S. obtained for the purpose of education and research, a largely unregulated, and highly profitable business that often operates in the shadows.
Examines the history of man's knowledge of the heart, looks at early heart surgery, and discusses the results, possible complications, costs, and future of heart transplants.
