Spare Parts
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Spare Parts: In Praise of Your Appendix and Other Unappreciated Organs
By Carol Ann Rinzler... all of whom may or may not be able to perform the other most difficult human muscle maneuvers: touching the nose or chin with your tongue, lifting one eyebrow (Nimoy again), twitching the nose like Bewitched's Elizabeth Montgomery, ...
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Spare Parts: Organ Replacement in American Society
By Renee C. Fox, Judith P. SwazeyTr. K. Anderson. In The Encylopedia of Religion (Vol. 6), Mircea Eliade, editor in chief, pp. 234-237. ... Journal of the American Medical Association 261(10 March): 1483-1484. Morrow, L. 1 99 1 . When one body can save another.
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Spare Parts: A Marine Reservist's Journey from Campus to Combat in 38 Days
By Buzz WilliamsThe author describes his unexpected odyssey from college to the Persian Gulf after only four weeks of combat training, describing the physical and emotional challenges that he and his fellow reservists faced during the Gulf War.
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Spare Parts: The Story of Medicine Through the History of Transplant Surgery
By Paul CraddockPaul Craddock's Spare Parts offers an original look at the history of medicine itself through the rich, compelling, and delightfully macabre story of transplant surgery from ancient times to the present day.
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Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream
By Joshua DavisBut this is just the beginning for these four, whose story—which became a key inspiration to the DREAMers movement—will go on to include first-generation college graduations, deportation, bean-picking in Mexico, and service in ...
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Spare Parts
By Ken HadaHis canvas is broad, and he paints it with rare compassion, grit, and unblinking emotional honesty. This is a book to read and return to, again and again, for the little triumphs necessary to sustain us through the tragedies of our lives.
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Spare Parts
By Sally Rogers-DavidsonThere's just one catch - first she must trade her human body in for a State-of-the-Art Cyboform.First published by Penguin Books Australia in 1999, Spare Parts was short listed for the 1999 Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, and ...
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Spare Parts: The Story of Medicine Through the History of Transplant Surgery
By Paul CraddockOriginally published: Great Britain: Fig Tree, 2021.
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Spare Parts: Organ Replacement in American Society
By Renee C. FoxIn Part II, the focus shifts to the story of the rise and fall of the Jarvik-7 artificial heart in the United States, its relation to American social institutions and cultural patterns, and its bearing on social control issues associated ...
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Spare Parts: Organ Replacement in American Society
By Judith P. Swazey, Renée Claire FoxChronologically, Spare Parts begins where the authors' previous book, The Courage to Fail, leaves off. More than a sequel, however, this work reflects their increasingly troubled and critical reactions to the expansion of organ replacement.
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Spare Parts: The Story of Medicine Through the History of Transplant Surgery
By Paul CraddockIn Spare Parts, cultural historian Paul Craddock takes us on a fascinating journey, from Indian surgeons regrafting lost noses in the sixth century BC, to seventeenth century blood transfusions between humans and dogs, to the French ...
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Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream
By Joshua DavisBut this is just the beginning for these four, whose story—which became a key inspiration to the DREAMers movement—will go on to include first-generation college graduations, deportation, bean-picking in Mexico, and service in ...
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Spare Parts
By Marc PlattOn a dark frozen planet where no planet should be, in a rat-infested city with a sky of stone, the Doctor and Nyssa unearth a black market in second-hand body parts and run the gauntlet of augmented police and their augmented horses.
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Spare Parts
By Rick HansonAdam McCleer, an Oregon policeman turned sculptor, goes looking for a missing brother-in-law.
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Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream
By Joshua DavisBut this is just the beginning for these four, whose story—which became a key inspiration to the DREAMers movement—will go on to include first-generation college graduations, deportation, bean-picking in Mexico, and service in ...
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Spare Parts: An Unexpected History of Transplants
By Paul CraddockA thoroughly engrossing read that I couldn't put down' LINDSEY FITZHARRIS, author of The Facemaker and The Butchering Art 'Spare Parts is a fascinating read filled with adventure, delight and surprise' RAHUL JANDIAL, surgeon and author of ...
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Spare Parts
By Marshall HighetAs creatures from different worlds, Tesla and Lynx should never have met.
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Spare Parts
By Rebecca Emberley" And that's how two robots who are nothing but spare parts meet and make each other whole in this riotous and rhythmic robot love story from the creators of The Ant and the Grasshopper and The Crocodile and the Scorpion.
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Spare Parts: From Peg Legs to Gene Splices
By Wendy B. MurphyDiscusses historic and modern devices and other means of replacing damaged or missing parts in humans, including organ transplants, genetic engineering, and computer-engineered limbs.