transplantation of organs, tissues, etc

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.

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.