HISTORY OF MEDICINE OPEN LECTURE
Banking on the Body: American Commerce in Flesh and Blood in the Twentieth
Century
Professor Susan Lederer (University of Madison Wisconsin)
5.15-6.30 pm, Wednesday 20 May 2009
Lecture Theatre 4, Stopford Building
University of Manchester
Drinks reception to follow.
Professor Susan Lederer will reflect upon the American practice of selling
blood, skin and other body parts in the twentieth century. This
commodification of the body, its fluids and its parts was never complete nor
was it uncontested. As early as the 1920s, some observers cautioned about
the "despicable traffic in organs" and in the 1950s and 1960s, new
transplantation operations raised the spectre of a market in human kidneys
and hearts. Some degree of control was introduced with the National Organ
Transplant Act in 1984, though despite regulation and public distaste, the
market in human tissue continued to operate. Professor Lederer's lecture
will draw on her recent book, Flesh and Blood: Organ Transplantation and
Blood Transfusion in Twentieth Century America. (Oxford University Press, 2008).
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