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"There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep."
- Homer
(~700 BC),
The Odyssey
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ZIN Product Number: 10057068
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Textbook Paperback, 1st ed., 2
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299149641
Release Date: Jan 5, 1996
| |  | | | In Brief
"Over the course of two years, scholars representing numerous culturaland religious traditions, as well as health and academic disciplines, met at the Park Ridge Center for the Study of Health, Faith and Ethics in Chicago 'toexplore the phenomenological reality of organ transplantation and examine itshuman and cultural meaning.' This collection of a dozen essays is the product of those meetings." (Christ Century) Index.
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The book contains black-and-white illustrations.
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| | | |  | | | | Acknowledgments | | | 1 | Introduction | 3 | | 2 | The Realities of Organ Transplantation | 19 | | 3 | Some Must Die | 32 | | 4 | Why Organ Transplant Programs Do Not Succeed | 56 | | 5 | Fearful Symmetry: Corpses for Anatomy, Organs for Transplantation? | 66 | | 6 | Organ Vendors, Families, and the Gift of Life | 101 | | 7 | Organ Donation and Transplantation - A Surgeon's View | 126 | | 8 | Deadly Disputes: Ideologies and Brain Death in Japan | 142 | | 9 | Choosing Life: Aspects of Judaism Affecting Organ Transplantation | 168 | | 10 | Transplanting Myths of Organ Transplants | 194 | | 11 | Cosmas and Damian: Of Medicine, Miracles, and the Economies of the Body | 221 | | 12 | Afterthoughts: Continuing Reflections on Organ Transplantation | 252 | | Contributors | 275 | | Index | 279 |
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