A death retold : Jesica Santillan, the bungled transplant, and paradoxes of medical citizenship /

In February 2003, an undocumented immigrant teenager from Mexico lay dying in a prominent American hospital due to a stunning medical oversight - she had received a heart-lung transplantation of the wrong blood type. In the following weeks, Jesica Santillan's tragedy became a portal into the co...

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Outros autores: Wailoo, Keith, Livingston, Julie, Guarnaccia, Peter Joseph
Formato: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press ©2006.
Series:Studies in social medicine.
Acceso en liña:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9780807877524_wailoo