TY - JOUR
AU - Hannaway, Caroline
AB - Book Reviews 877 World origins. He discusses medical writers American public’s response to it. His goal was who blamed women for the spread of the dis- to produce a history for the general reader, and ease, and he notes the use of mercury as the this nicely written book, with its fascinating il- primary Western treatment until the twentieth lustrations, should attract a wide audience. century. Susan L. Smith Although the book includes a chapter University of Alberta on syphilis in America from the colonial era Edmonton, Alberta through the nineteenth century, its main focus is on the twentieth century, when the United Flesh and Blood: Organ Transplantation and States Public Health Service defined its role in Blood Transfusion in Twentieth-Century Amer- fighting the disease and scientists developed ica. By Susan E. Lederer. (New York: Oxford important methods of diagnosis and treat- University Press, 2008. xvi, 224 pp. $35.00, ment. In 1906 August von Wasserman devel- isbn 978-0-19-516150-2.) oped a blood test to identify syphilis. In 1910 Paul Ehrlich discovered the effectiveness of the Organ transplantation and blood transfusion drug Salvarsan in treating the symptoms of ve- were two of the most significant procedures nereal disease, and by 1943 
TI - Flesh and Blood: Organ Transplantation and Blood Transfusion in Twentieth-Century America. By Susan E. Lederer. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. xvi, 224 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-19-516150-2.)
JF - The Journal of American History
DO - 10.1093/jahist/96.3.877
DA - 2009-12-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/flesh-and-blood-organ-transplantation-and-blood-transfusion-in-Vs5yKIBhWQ
SP - 877
EP - 878
VL - 96
IS - 3
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