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Organ Transplant Books
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The following books have been selected as references for the organ transplant community. Over 90% of all income received by the TIGER Fund from these products goes directly to aid organ donor and organ transplant families.
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Organ Transplants: Making the Most of Your Gift of Life
by Robert Finn
Deciding whether to have a transplant and choosing a transplant team The importance of the screening interview What factors go into determining a match, and what to do while waiting Detailed information on heart and lung, liver, kidney and pancreas, and other transplants Anti-rejection drugs and living with a transplant Emotional responses and support Specific situation such as living donors, transplants in children, meeting the donor family, etc
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Organ Transplants: A Survival Guide for the Entire Family
by Tina P. Schwartz
This is a one-of-a-kind book that addresses the issue of what it's like to be involved with an organ transplant procedure. It's filled with real-life stories of teens whose parents, siblings, or other family members are transplant recipients as well as teens who have had transplants themselves and includes stories of recipients who have received heart, liver, kidney, pancreas, and double-lung transplants. |
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Nicholas Effect
by Reg Green
In 1994, when their 7-year-old son, Nicholas, was killed during a botched car-jacking, Reg and Maggie Green galvanized all of Italy--and the world--by donating Nicholas's organs to seven desperately sick Italians, becoming a model of a grief-stricken family seeking to create good from horror, to reject vengeance in the face of great loss, to work for justice, and to proclaim--with each of their grace-filled actions--the superiority of love over hate.
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Transplants: From Myth to Reality
by Nicholas L. Tilney
Organ transplantation has become a generally effective and routine treatment for patients with organ failure. In this riveting book, a well-known expert in the fields of clinical transplantation and transplantation research traces the evolution of organ transplantation from its initial stirrings in the imaginations of the ancients to its current status as accepted treatment for nearly 40,000 patients each year. Drawing often on his own firsthand experience, Dr. Nicholas L. Tilney tells the story of the advances in organ transplantation, discusses how societal forces have driven its development, and reveals how its current success is marred by commercialism and exploitation of the less fortunate |
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Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death
by Margaret Lock
Tales about organ transplants appear in mythology and folk stories, and surface in documents from medieval times, but only during the past twenty years has medical knowledge and technology been sufficiently advanced for surgeons to perform thousands of transplants each year.
Lock draws on extensive interviews conducted over ten years with physicians working in intensive care units, transplant surgeons, organ recipients, donor families, members of the general public in both Japan and North America, and political activists in Japan opposed to the recognition of brain death.
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Organ Transplant: The Music of Life
by Caren Mazure
Organ Transplant: The Music of Life combines the author’s experience as a double lung transplant recipient with key information. The book is geared to educate patients, their loved ones and the general public about the subjects of organ donation and transplant. These areas include the mention of various organs, the procedures for organ donation, immune-suppressant drugs, helpful organization tips and nutrition. |
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It Gets Dark Sometimes
by Jeffery Marx
The book tells the remarkable story of liver transplant recipient Wendy Marx. It is written by Pulitzer Prize winner Jeffrey Marx. In the words of Olympic champion Carl Lewis, a friend of Wendy's who has shared her journey and been a major player in the transplant community for more than a decade: "Wendy Marx keeps inspiring me. This book definitely deserves a gold medal." Visit their web page direct. |
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