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Transplant surgery: an eye-opening history

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Transplants - A History of Transplantation

The book is a sacultural history of transplants as much as a medical history. And one of the things i was really intrigued by was that the way that you uncovered myths about transplants and what they kind of tell us about ideas about human identity. Could you share some of those with us? Well, one of e myths that comes up most often, i'd say, is that of jason of the argonauts. Most people will know the basis of that story, you know. R jason goes to claim the golden fleece. He takes the fleece and his new wife back home to thessaly. But when he gets there, all the sailors fathers come out

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