This book uses both oral and conventional historical methods to describe and analyze the history of lung transplantation in the US. While drawing on accounts from doctors and other specialists, it primarily focuses on the experiences of patients and explores themes of uncertainty, timing, identity, coping, and quality of life.

Autorentext
Mary Jo Festle is a professor of History at Elon University, where she teaches courses in recent U.S. History and Oral History. She is also the author of Playing Nice: Politics and Apologies in Women's Sports. Her brother Bob had a lung transplant.

Inhalt
Experience of End-Stage Lung Disease  Socio-Medical History of Lung Transplantation, 1963-2000 Making the Decision and Being Evaluated for Transplant  Waiting and Coping  Getting 'The Call'  Second Wind: Life after Transplant with a Donor Lung  Quality of Life after Transplant  Lung Transplants in the Twenty-first Century