Transplanting Care: Shifting Commitments in Health and Care in the United States

The sudden call, the race to the hospital, the high-stakes operation—the drama of transplant surgery is well known. But what happens before and after the surgery? In Transplanting Care, Laura L. Heinemann examines the daily lives of midwestern organ transplant patients and those who care for them, from pretransplant preparations through to the long posttransplant recovery.

Heinemann points out that as efforts to control healthcare costs gain urgency—and as new surgical techniques, drug th...