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Lexile Measure
870L
Summary
One moment June Nealon was happily looking forward to years full of laughter and adventure with her family, and the next, she was staring into a future that was as empty as her heart. Now her life is a waiting game. Waiting for time to heal her wounds, waiting for justice. In short, waiting for a miracle to happen. For Shay Bourne, life holds no more surprises. The world has given him nothing, and he has nothing to offer the world. In a heartbeat,...
2) Harvest
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Summary
A woman surgeon and a detective team up to investigate a racket in body transplants. The ring abducts political refugees and cuts out their organs for sale to the rich. The stakes rise as the doctor herself is abducted for this purpose. A first novel.
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Pub. Date
2022.
Summary
"We think of transplant surgery as one of the medical wonders of the modern world but it's a lot older than you think. As ancient as the pyramids, its history is even more surprising. Cultural historian Paul Craddock takes us on a journey - from sixteenth-century skin grafting to contemporary stem cell transplants - uncovering stories of experiments and operations performed by unexpected people in unexpected places. Bringing together philosophy, science...
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"The 1980s marked a revolution in the field of organ transplants, and Bud Shaw, M.D., who studied under Tom Starzl in Pittsburgh, was on the front lines. Now retired from active practice, Dr. Shaw relays gripping moments of anguish and elation, frustration and reward, despair and hope in his struggle to save patients."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Summary
"A gifted surgeon illuminates one of the most awe-inspiring achievements of modern-day medicine: the movement of organs between bodies. At the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Dr. Joshua Mezrich creates life from loss, transplanting organs from one body to another. In this intimate and profoundly moving work, he sheds light not only on the extraordinary field of transplantation that enables this kind of miracle to happen...
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Summary
NOVA takes viewers inside the operating room to witness organ transplant teams transferring organs from donors to recipients. Meet families navigating both sides of a transplant, and researchers working to end the organ shortage. Their efforts to understand organ rejection, discover ways to keep organs alive outside the body, and even grow artificial organs with stem cells, could save countless lives.
Series
Pub. Date
c2007
Summary
Thirteen essays present opposing arguments on issues regarding organ donation and transplants, including ethical questions, compensation for donation, the purchasing of organs, fundamental values, oversight of the U.S. transplant system, involuntary harvesting, animal-to-human transplants, and more.
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Summary
In 2015, Earth has become overcrowded and unruly due to a half-century of unsavory social changes. Billionaire Johann Sebastian Bach Smith is quickly dying. Desperate to live, he offers a million dollars for the body of a brain-dead person so that he may transfer his brain to the new host and live on. However, when his assistant Eunice Branca is murdered, Johann takes her body. Now a woman, the rechristened Joan Eunice Smith must coexist with Eunice's...
11) Serena says
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Formats
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"After her best friend, JC, has a kidney transplant, Serena feels that they are falling out of touch, especially as JC makes a new best friend in the hospital"--
14) Airhead
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Series
Lexile Measure
800L
Summary
Sixteen-year-old Emerson Watts, an advanced placement student with a disdain for fashion, is the recipient of a "whole body transplant" and finds herself transformed into one of the world's most famous teen supermodels.
Author
Pub. Date
c2010
Summary
On a remote island in the Canadian Arctic, PJ Colding leads a group of geneticists who have discovered the holy grail of medicine--a computer-engineered living creature whose organs can be implanted in any person, with no chance of transplant rejection. There's just one problem: these "ancestors" are not docile.
16) Boston cream
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Series
Pub. Date
2012
Summary
When PI Jonah Geller heads to Boston on the trail of a family friend's son, this missing person case looks more like a case of burnout. But it soon becomes clear that overachieving surgeon-in-training David Fine had a real reason to run. He'd been forced into a criminal ring performing illegal organ transplants, the brainchild of a Boston crime boss. Geller goes after him with partner Jenn Raudsepp, but when Jenn is kidnapped herself, he needs help...
17) Runaway
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Series
Pub. Date
2010
Lexile Measure
810L
Summary
When sixteen-year-old Emerson Watts learns the truth about Nikki, the teen supermodel into whose body Emerson's brain was transplanted, she finds that there is only one person to turn to for help--especially since her loved ones seem to be furious with her.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Summary
After receiving a medical diagnosis before the holidays, Heather Krueger discovers she is in urgent need of a life-saving liver transplant. Facing incredible odds against finding a donor, she's shocked when a stranger, Chris Dempsey, volunteers to donate half his liver to her. As Heather and Chris get to know one another and their families before and after the transplant, they form a deep connection and begin to wonder if the closeness they feel goes...
20) Unwind
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Series
Lexile Measure
740L
Summary
In a future world where those between the ages of thirteen and eighteen can have their lives "unwound" and their body parts harvested for use by others, three teens go to extreme lengths to uphold their beliefs--and, perhaps, save their own lives.
