Recommend Books - Organ Transplants
ComaLife: What the Hell is Going on Here
by Richard Darling
Paperback
The Puzzle People: Memoirs of a Transplant Surgeon
by Thomas E. Starzl (Dr. Starzl performed the first Liver Transplant)
Hardcover
A Gift of Life: A Page From the Life of a Living Organ Donor
by Paul Jenkins (Editor), Lynn Chabot-Long
Paperback

Organ Transplantation: Meanings and Realities
by Stuart J. Youngner (Editor), Renee C. Fox (Editor), Laurence J. O'Connell
(Editor)
Paperback
The Ethics of Organ Transplants: The Current Debate
by Arthur L. Caplan (Editor), Daniel H. Coelho (Editor)
Paperback

I'm Glad You're Not Dead: A Liver Transplant Story
by Elizabeth Parr
Paperback
A Change of Heart: A Memoir
by Claire Sylvia, William Novak (Contributor), Bernie S. Siegel
Synopsis
After a heart and lung transplant operation, dancer Claire Sylvia discovered that new organs were not the only thing she inherited. Never having liked such foods as beer and chicken nuggets, she suddenly started craving them. After an extraordinary dream, she seeks out the family of her donor--a teenaged boy who died in a motorcycle accident--and learns that it is indeed possible for two souls to merge in one body.
Paperback
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