Transplanting Organs Through the Ages

For most of human history, to have an organ shut down was to die. The idea of taking parts of your own body and using them to fix another, or even more strange parts of someone else's body has a long, deep, and strange history. Allow Xander from Artexplains to explain.

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Nothing to Say Show Episode #100 feat. ARTexplains:

Vice Documentary on Kidneyville (second half of the video)

Uncensored Syphilis Picture (Potantially NSFL)

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Tilney, N. L. (2003). Transplantfrom myth to reality.

Hamilton, D. (2012). A history of organ transplantationancient legends to modern practice.

Sharp, L. A. (2006). Strange harvestorgan transplants, denatured bodies, and the transformed self.

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