Biolust, Brain Death, and the Battle Over Organ Transplants

William LaFleur (1936-2010), an eminent scholar of Japanese studies, left behind a substantial number of influential publications, as well as several unpublished works. The most significant of these examines debates concerning the practice of organ transplantation in Japan and the United States, and is published here for the first time.
This provocative book challenges the North American medical an...