A Death Retold: Jesica Santillan, the Bungled Transplant, and Paradoxes of Medical Citizenship by Keith Wailoo

A Death Retold: Jesica Santillan, the Bungled Transplant, and Paradoxes of Medical Citizenship

Keith Wailoo

378 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

informative slow-paced
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In February 2003, an undocumented immigrant teen 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 Sant...

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