The memoirs of an transplant physician trace his career and family life, presenting an argument for the benefits of organ transplant while offering insight into how politics and personalities contribute to the business of organ transplant and its related science. Reprint. (Health & Fitness)

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks meets Get Out in this “startling…powerful” (Kirkus Reviews) investigation of racial inequality at the core of the heart transplant race. In 1968, Bruce Tucker, a black man, went into Virginia’s top research hospital with a head injury, only to have his heart taken out of his body and put into the chest of a white businessman. Now, in The Organ Thieves, Pulitzer Prize–nominated journalist Chip Jones exposes the horrifying inequality surrounding Tucker’s death and how he was used as a human guinea pig without his family’s permission or knowledge. The circumstances surrounding his death reflect the long legacy of mistreating African Americans that began more than a century before with cadaver harvesting and worse. It culminated in efforts to win the heart transplant race in the late 1960s. Featuring years of research and fresh reporting, along with a foreword from social justice activist Ben Jealous, “this powerful book weaves together a medical mystery, a legal drama, and a sweeping history, its characters confronting unprecedented issues of life and death under the shadows of centuries of racial injustice” (Edward L. Ayers, author of The Promise of the New South).

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In this bold and original book, the author develops a provocative theory about the metaphysics of material objects. According to this view, visible inanimate objects such as ships or mountains or stars do not, strictly speaking, exist.

In Defying the Gods, Scott McCartney takes the reader inside the world of organ transplants, focusing on four patients at the Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas. Baylor is home to one of the top three leading transplant teams in the country - a pair of "Top Gun" cutters who have stretched the boundaries of science to save lives. Defying the Gods shows not only what goes on inside the operating room, but also details the circumstances that brought the patients and the organs to the operating table - because for every triumphant successful transplant, there is the death of the person who donated the organ. McCartney follows the four patients on this difficult journey, from the weeks or even months of anguished waiting on the list of potential recipients, to the stressful recovery period when both doctors and patients watch tensely to see if the organ will be rejected by the patient's body - which in some cases means death. McCartney also profiles the transplant surgeons, who consider themselves on the cutting edge of medicine as they constantly push back the borders of death, and explains and critiques the transplant system: Who decides who gets one of the small number of available organs, and how is that decision made? Are doctors' and hospitals' hands tied by the laws regulating the collection and allocation of organs, or do they manipulate those laws? How important is it for patients to pass what doctors call the "wallet biopsy"? What can we do to assure an adequate supply of organs in the future? Defying the Gods is the definitive account of the history, science, and ethics that make transplants possible, covering the terrible choices transplantation presents for families, themoral dilemmas facing doctors, and the ongoing debate over how best to allocate the limited organs to those who need them. It is both suspenseful and moving, addressing important medical issues on a most human level.

The phenomenon of unaccusativity is a central focus for the study of the complex properties of verb classes. This book combines contemporary approaches to the subject with several papers that have achieved a significant status even though formally unpublished.

The beauty of general surgery is putting different but important pieces of information together to find the answer. It is like putting pieces of a puzzle together. The market is full of either massive textbooks or deficient handbooks. This book is not meant to discuss in-depth the disease but rather put all the important principles and knowledge together to achieve the clearest picture of different surgical diseases. The book uses a to-the-point approach and outlines important points for patient care, rounds and even board examinations. This book will help the surgical student or resident to become a well-rounded surgeon.

Receiving a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS), Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, or some other brain-related illness is devastating. It feels like life, as you know it, is over, and you are powerless to do anything about it. Your future may seem like nothing but a long black tunnel of decreasing cognitive function, declining mobility, depression, and premature death. Even your physician may share this gloomy view. The good news is, you have more control over your brain health than you think! With the exception of cancer, many brain illnesses can be reversed through a combination of diet, exercise, supplements, proper sleep, avoiding and removing toxins from the body, and taking an epigenetic (turning good genes on and not-so-good genes off) approach to your healing. Several “jump start” techniques, including oxygen therapy, microbiota therapy (Gut Flora Transplant or GFT), photobiomodulation therapy (PMT), venous angioplasty, and even cannabis can enhance your recovery in as little as a few weeks. Never before have we had so many safe approaches with little or no side effects. Best of all, these treatments are now available on almost every continent, including Europe, Asia, Australia, and North America. It is time we let go of our paternalistic concept that “doctor knows best.” This book describes all the above treatments and more, providing a roadmap to enhance your brain recovery. You may not feel like it right now, but you can win the brain game, and this book can show you how!

Analyzing one of the most dramatic of the new medical technologies--Organ Transplantation--Gift of Life covers those aspects that have general implications for public policy and sociological theory, and describes the social-psycho-logical impact of kidney transplantation itself. Gift of Life beginswith an examination of the overall, unresolved ethical issues related to kidney transplan-tation--the problem of selecting patients for a scarce therapy.., the problem of withholding treatment from patients of greater physical and psychological risk ... the issue of utilizing living related kidney donors vs. cadaver donors. The book concentrates on organ donors and their families, and studies the effect of this type of extreme altruism. It also examines the stress for the family as the members try to decide who, if anyone, will give a kidney. The work shows how individuals and families make major decisions under stress. Discussed in detail are family communication processes and emotional relationships between donor and recipient, as well as the impact of donation upon the family of the cadaver-donor. The final analysis deals with the health care delivery issues and the questions of funding created by the rapid rise of this new technology. Gift of Life, with its exposition of decision making communication, and reaction to stress, is of relevance to social science theory and policy.