Flesh and blood : organ transplantation and blood transfusion in twentieth-century America / Susan E. Lederer.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008.

xvi, 224 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Living on the Island of Doctor Moreau : grafting tissues in the early twentieth century -- Miracles of resurrection : reinventing blood transfusion in the twentieth century -- Banking on the body -- Lost boundaries : race, blood, and bodies -- Are you my type? : blood groups, individuality, and difference -- Medicalizing miscegenation: transplantation and race -- Religious bodies -- Organ recital : transplantation and transfusion in historical perspective.

Includes bibliographical references and index.