Transplanting Care: Shifting Commitments in Health and Care in the United States (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine)

Transplanting Care examines the daily lives of midwestern organ transplant patients and their caregivers, from pretransplant preparations through to the long posttransplant recovery. Drawing on scores of interviews with patients, relatives, and healthcare professionals, Laura L. Heinemann follows a variety of patients and loved ones as they undertake this difficult "transplant journey" while coping with a paucity of resources for caregiving.

• | Author: Laura L. Heinemann
• | Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• | Publication Date: July 12, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 208 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0813574420
• | ISBN-13: 9780813574424