transplantation of organs, tissues, etc

Describes different types of organ transplants and the issues related to each type. Covers the history of and procedures for organ transplants. Discusses how doctors select donors and recipients and examines research on artificial organs.

Explores transplant surgery, discussing its history; various types of transplants, including liver, heart, and face; and how donor organs are found.

Discusses organ transplants, including their history, the politics of waiting for organs, ethical and economic considerations, solutions to the organ shortage, and the future of organ transplantation.

Describes the preservation and reuse of eyes, blood, skin grafts, and hearts through transplant surgery. Also discusses possible future developments in donor transplants.

Explores the techniques of transplantation and implant surgery which have developed since the 1950s, discussing the risks and moral issues involved.

Examines the science of organ transplantation, discusses how the process has been used to save lives, and looks at some of the ethical objections people have to creating organs outside the body and using organs from other animals for transplanting into humans.

When Jessica is diagnosed as having kidney failure her only hope is a kidney transplant but her boyfriend Jeremy must find the strength to defy his parents in order to be the donor and save Jessica's life.

Genetisist P.J. Colding and his team, working on a remote island in the Canadian Arctic, figure out how to reverse evolution and create a computer-engineered living creature from which organs can be harvested for transplant patients, but, to their surprise, the animals are not as docile as they thought they would be and P.J. and the others must fight in order to avoid becoming their prey.

Presents an introduction to organ transplant procedures, describing how they changed the course of medicine, the history of transplants, and how they will effect the future.

"Discusses current practices of organ transplants, developments in science that make transplants possible, and the history of organ transplants as well as issues surrounding organ shortage and organ selling"--Provided by publisher.