Word: transplanter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHAT'S IT ALL MEAN, Mr. Natural? On page 29, Peter Landry takes a look at Resticball as Harvard begins its third season under the Canadian transplant, and says "it don't mean shit...
...whole new set of psychological responses in transplant cases are being studied. The recipient is so unique he does not even know how he is expected to react. The heart is the most palpable of organs: How does it feel to have a dead man's pulse? The easy response is any pulse is better than none. But surely there are lonely hours when an organ recipient realizes that he is no longer totally the same...
...ABORTION ISSUE has focused on a definition for the beginning of life. When transplants are performed on the same scale, an adequate definition of death will become just as controversial. The traditional termination of spontaneous heartbeat and breathing simply is not satisfactory. Emergency techniques have brought back many such clinically "dead." At the other extreme is the guideline of a cautious Dr. Maze, who wrote in 1890 that the first signs of decay should precede burial. For transplant purposes, this caution is a little restrictive...
Doctors searching for a workable definition have had to protect themselves from lawsuits and murder charges as well as protect the patient from the scalpels of overzealous transplant surgeons. Usually, they have called in an outside, objective judge: the electroencephalograph (EEG). The EEG measures electrical activity in the brain, which has displaced the heart as the recognized center of individuality. Cessation of that electrical activity is "death...
...LAST few years there have been an estimated 5000 transplants of kidneys, 1000 livers, 25 of lungs and 160 of hearts. Once techniques are perfected and the body's tendency to reject foreign objects is overcome, the practice will become much more common. Some doctors estimate that eventually one third of all humans will undergo a transplant at some point in their lives...