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FROM: Theyer Hillary <[removed]@TORRNET.COM>
REC'D: 1/20/01, 3:48 PM

We are planning a book discussion on The Nicholas Effect by Reg Green. It
is the true story of how the parents of a boy killed in Italy donated his
organs to seven ill Italians. I am looking for fiction or non-fiction
titles on organ or tissue donation. Any relation to the topic will do, and
I am seeking multiple points of view.

Also, I am seeking examples of movies or TV shows that have handled the
issue, both poorly and well. These will be fodder for the discussion of
the myths and realities of organ and tissue transplants. What I have so far
in this area is:
St. Elsewhere – artificial heart, doctor’s wife dies and patient gets heart
LA Law – lawyers help client pay for an organ (liver or heart, I don’t
remember)
Chicago Hope – rich man pays for a new liver, person brought into the
hospital in a coma is declared dead but wakes up on the operating table as
his organs are about to be harvested, animal organ placed in human (heart I
think)
A TV Movie based on a true story starring Chad Lowe as the young recipient
of a new heart (If anyone can remember the name, I would be most grateful)

I just know there are more, so please share any you can remember!

Thanks again, you guys are awesome!
Hillary Theyer

FROM: "Lisa Colcord" <[removed]@ci.glendale.az.us>
REC'D: 1/20/01, 4:11 PM

Moviewise, there is the recent film with David Duchovny (sp) and Minnie Driver called Return to Me. His wife is killed in a car accident, the wife's heart is given to Minnie Driver, and then they meet.

Lisa

Lisa Colcord
Librarian
Glendale Public library
Glendale, AZ

....my views are my own....

-The secret to life is enjoying the passage of time- James Taylor

>>> [removed]@TORRNET.COM 01/20/01 02:59PM >>>
We are planning a book discussion on The Nicholas Effect by Reg Green. It
is the true story of how the parents of a boy killed in Italy donated his
organs to seven ill Italians. I am looking for fiction or non-fiction
titles on organ or tissue donation. Any relation to the topic will do, and
I am seeking multiple points of view.

Also, I am seeking examples of movies or TV shows that have handled the
issue, both poorly and well. These will be fodder for the discussion of
the myths and realities of organ and tissue transplants. What I have so far
in this area is:
St. Elsewhere * artificial heart, doctor's wife dies and patient gets heart
LA Law * lawyers help client pay for an organ (liver or heart, I don't
remember)
Chicago Hope * rich man pays for a new liver, person brought into the
hospital in a coma is declared dead but wakes up on the operating table as
his organs are about to be harvested, animal organ placed in human (heart I
think)
A TV Movie based on a true story starring Chad Lowe as the young recipient
of a new heart (If anyone can remember the name, I would be most grateful)

I just know there are more, so please share any you can remember!

Thanks again, you guys are awesome!
Hillary Theyer

FROM: "Melanie C. Duncan" <[removed]@mail.bibb.public.lib.ga.us>
REC'D: 1/20/01, 4:20 PM

Check out Tess Gerritsen, Robin Cook and Eileen Dreyer's medical thrillers.
I know at least one of them wrote a book about people stealing
organs/selling organs to the highest bidder.


Sincerely,
Melanie C. Duncan, M.S.L.S.
Washington Memorial Library, Reference Librarian
Library Journal, Christian Fiction Columnist
The Bookdragon Review, Editor/Publisher
http://www.bookdragonreview.com
All opinions expressed are my own.

FROM: Sherri Lazenby <[removed]@dallaslibrary.org>
REC'D: 1/20/01, 4:22 PM

Just a couple of movies off the top of my head. Both romantic comedies of a
sort, so I don't know if they are what you are looking for.

Untamed Heart (1993) Christian Slater and Marisa Tomei. Christian Slater
plays an orphan who has received a heart transplant when he was a child. He
believes the heart was from a baboon (original title of the movie Baboon
Heart). In the end he dies, but he dies happy.

Return to me (2000) David Duchovny and Minnie Driver. Duchovny's wife dies
in a car wreck. Minnie Driver gets her heart. Later they meet and fall in
love, then discover the heart transplant and both get spooked.

There was also a movie (I don't know if it was a made-for-TV or theatrical
release) about a woman who gets a cornea transplant and thinks someone is
stalking her. At first no one believes her because she still can't see
clearly. Turns out she is being stalked by a hospital worker who (if I
remember correctly) is related to the person who was the doner and is
tracking down and killing all of the organ receivers. I'm just as bad as a
patron. I remember all of this, but not the name of the movie. Maybe
someone else out there will remember.

If I think of anything else I'll let you know.


Sherri L. Lazenby
[removed]@dallaslibrary.org <[removed]@dallaslibrary.org>
Branch Manager
Audelia Road Branch Library
Dallas Public Library System
10045 Audelia Road
Dallas, TX 75238
(214) 670-1350
(214) 670-0790 FAX

-----Original Message-----
From: Theyer Hillary [[removed]@TORRNET.COM]
Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2001 3:45 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: fiction on organ/tissue donation

We are planning a book discussion on The Nicholas Effect by Reg
Green. It
is the true story of how the parents of a boy killed in Italy
donated his
organs to seven ill Italians. I am looking for fiction or
non-fiction
titles on organ or tissue donation. Any relation to the topic will
do, and
I am seeking multiple points of view.

Also, I am seeking examples of movies or TV shows that have handled
the
issue, both poorly and well. These will be fodder for the
discussion of
the myths and realities of organ and tissue transplants. What I
have so far
in this area is:
St. Elsewhere - artificial heart, doctor's wife dies and patient
gets heart
LA Law - lawyers help client pay for an organ (liver or heart, I
don't
remember)
Chicago Hope - rich man pays for a new liver, person brought into
the
hospital in a coma is declared dead but wakes up on the operating
table as
his organs are about to be harvested, animal organ placed in human
(heart I
think)
A TV Movie based on a true story starring Chad Lowe as the young
recipient
of a new heart (If anyone can remember the name, I would be most
grateful)

I just know there are more, so please share any you can remember!

Thanks again, you guys are awesome!
Hillary Theyer


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FROM: "Joy Tofteland" <[removed]@ankeny.k12.ia.us>
REC'D: 1/20/01, 4:33 PM

Coma by Robin Cook. It was also a movie.

Joy Tofteland
Reference/ Technical Resources Librarian
Kirkendall Public Library
Ankeny, IA


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We are planning a book discussion on The Nicholas Effect by Reg Green. It
is the true story of how the parents of a boy killed in Italy donated his
organs to seven ill Italians. I am looking for fiction or non-fiction
titles on organ or tissue donation. Any relation to the topic will do, and
I am seeking multiple points of view.

Also, I am seeking examples of movies or TV shows that have handled the
issue, both poorly and well. These will be fodder for the discussion of
the myths and realities of organ and tissue transplants. What I have so far
in this area is:
St. Elsewhere – artificial heart, doctor’s wife dies and patient gets heart
LA Law – lawyers help client pay for an organ (liver or heart, I don’t
remember)
Chicago Hope – rich man pays for a new liver, person brought into the
hospital in a coma is declared dead but wakes up on the operating table as
his organs are about to be harvested, animal organ placed in human (heart I
think)
A TV Movie based on a true story starring Chad Lowe as the young recipient
of a new heart (If anyone can remember the name, I would be most grateful)

I just know there are more, so please share any you can remember!

Thanks again, you guys are awesome!
Hillary Theyer

FROM: "Melanie C. Duncan" <[removed]@mail.bibb.public.lib.ga.us>
REC'D: 1/20/01, 4:36 PM

The movies mentioned made me think of a made-for-tv movie ages ago starring
Mare Winningham and the blonde brother from Simon & Simon (A.J.?); his
wife's body is mangled in a car accident, while Mare's character suffers an
aneurysm. Voila! Brain transplant time. (It was a really bad movie.)


Sincerely,
Melanie C. Duncan, M.S.L.S.
Washington Memorial Library, Reference Librarian
Library Journal, Christian Fiction Columnist
The Bookdragon Review, Editor/Publisher
http://www.bookdragonreview.com
All opinions expressed are my own.

FROM: Sherri Lazenby <[removed]@dallaslibrary.org>
REC'D: 1/20/01, 4:46 PM

Melanie,

I think I remember this movie. The wife was a model or something and can't
deal with how ugly she thinks her new body is. Also Mare's husband can't
accept that his wife's body no longer belongs to his wife (keeps on trying
to get her to come home and see her kids). Truly awful movie.


Sherri L. Lazenby
[removed]@dallaslibrary.org <[removed]@dallaslibrary.org>
Branch Manager
Audelia Road Branch Library
Dallas Public Library System
10045 Audelia Road
Dallas, TX 75238
(214) 670-1350
(214) 670-0790 FAX

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From: Melanie C. Duncan [[removed]@mail.bibb.public.lib.ga.us]
Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2001 5:34 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: RE: fiction on organ/tissue donation

The movies mentioned made me think of a made-for-tv movie ages ago
starring
Mare Winningham and the blonde brother from Simon & Simon (A.J.?);
his
wife's body is mangled in a car accident, while Mare's character
suffers an
aneurysm. Voila! Brain transplant time. (It was a really bad movie.)


Sincerely,
Melanie C. Duncan, M.S.L.S.
Washington Memorial Library, Reference Librarian
Library Journal, Christian Fiction Columnist
The Bookdragon Review, Editor/Publisher
http://www.bookdragonreview.com
All opinions expressed are my own.


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FROM: "Theresa L. Anderson" <[removed]@boulder.lib.co.us>
REC'D: 1/20/01, 6:30 PM

There's always the classic horror flick "The Hand." It's hinges on the theory that if a person is truly evil they will carry evil down to the cellular level. A good natured man loses his hand in an accident and he gets a transplant from a convicted and executed murderer. Of course the hand starts taking control of the good man and commits evil deeds. It's pretty cheesy but it shows an example of mans' internal struggle of good vs. evil. There were a couple of remakes (probably just as cheesy), if I recall.

Tessa

Theresa Anderson
Boulder Public Library

>>> [removed]@TORRNET.COM 01/20/01 02:44PM >>>
We are planning a book discussion on The Nicholas Effect by Reg Green. It
is the true story of how the parents of a boy killed in Italy donated his
organs to seven ill Italians. I am looking for fiction or non-fiction
titles on organ or tissue donation. Any relation to the topic will do, and
I am seeking multiple points of view.

Also, I am seeking examples of movies or TV shows that have handled the
issue, both poorly and well. These will be fodder for the discussion of
the myths and realities of organ and tissue transplants. What I have so far
in this area is:
St. Elsewhere * artificial heart, doctor's wife dies and patient gets heart
LA Law * lawyers help client pay for an organ (liver or heart, I don't
remember)
Chicago Hope * rich man pays for a new liver, person brought into the
hospital in a coma is declared dead but wakes up on the operating table as
his organs are about to be harvested, animal organ placed in human (heart I
think)
A TV Movie based on a true story starring Chad Lowe as the young recipient
of a new heart (If anyone can remember the name, I would be most grateful)

I just know there are more, so please share any you can remember!

Thanks again, you guys are awesome!
Hillary Theyer

FROM: "Theresa L. Anderson" <[removed]@boulder.lib.co.us>
REC'D: 1/20/01, 6:59 PM

I thought of another one. "Frankenstein" ! Movie and book.

Tessa

>>> [removed]@TORRNET.COM 01/20/01 02:44PM >>>
We are planning a book discussion on The Nicholas Effect by Reg Green. It
is the true story of how the parents of a boy killed in Italy donated his
organs to seven ill Italians. I am looking for fiction or non-fiction
titles on organ or tissue donation. Any relation to the topic will do, and
I am seeking multiple points of view.

Also, I am seeking examples of movies or TV shows that have handled the
issue, both poorly and well. These will be fodder for the discussion of
the myths and realities of organ and tissue transplants. What I have so far
in this area is:
St. Elsewhere * artificial heart, doctor's wife dies and patient gets heart
LA Law * lawyers help client pay for an organ (liver or heart, I don't
remember)
Chicago Hope * rich man pays for a new liver, person brought into the
hospital in a coma is declared dead but wakes up on the operating table as
his organs are about to be harvested, animal organ placed in human (heart I
think)
A TV Movie based on a true story starring Chad Lowe as the young recipient
of a new heart (If anyone can remember the name, I would be most grateful)

I just know there are more, so please share any you can remember!

Thanks again, you guys are awesome!
Hillary Theyer

FROM: "Deborah T. Walsh" <[removed]@dupagels.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 1/21/01, 11:50 AM

Blood Work by Michael Connelly is a non-series thriller about an FBI agent
who is the recipient of a heart transplant and his investigation of an
unsolved murder.

Deborah T. Walsh
Geneva Public Library District
Geneva, IL
[removed]@dupagels.lib.il.us

FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 1/21/01, 1:05 PM

There is a very recent movie starring David Duchovny & Minnie Driver. His
wife gets killed in an accident. Minnie Driver gets her heart. They meet
before each finds out about what happened. A very touching, poignant movie.
Great supporting cast. (Carroll O'Connor, etc.)

Binnie Syril Braunstein
romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 1/21/01, 1:05 PM

Law & Order had an episode a couple of years ago where a man was kidnapped,
his kidney extracted, and he was left for dead in the park. The man behind
the crime was extremely wealthy, and he wanted the organ for his daughter.

Binnie Syril Braunstein
romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 1/21/01, 1:26 PM

Here's another example. This is a TV movie starring Ann Jillian. The Plot
summary is from IMDB.

Plot Summary for
Heart of a Child (1994) (TV)

Tear jerker, based on a true story. Two mothers suffer abnormal pregnancies;
one baby has a deficient heart and the other an incomplete brain. Minutes
after the respective births, the doctors race against time to first ever
heart transplant on a newborn infant.

Summary written by M Tunnicliffe

I also have a vague recollection of a horror movie, where the hand (or hands)
of a killer are transplanted onto the hands of a pianist - with less than
happy results, so to speak.

This plot summary is also from IMDB. The movie starred Robert Alda. Plot
Summary for
Beast with Five Fingers, The (1946)

Locals in an Italian village believe evil has taken over the estate of a
recently deceased pianist where several murders have taken place. The alleged
killer: the pianist's severed hand.

Summary written by Daniel Bubbeo


Binnie Syril Braunstein
romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: aaron smith <[removed]@oplin.lib.oh.us>
REC'D: 1/21/01, 3:33 PM

One possible suggestion for an approach to this topic might be the ending
sequence of the movie _Jesus of Montreal_, in which organ transplant is
used as a metaphor for (or perhaps as a manifestation of) resurrection.

Aaron Smith
Clermont County Public Library, Ohio

On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Theyer Hillary wrote:

> We are planning a book discussion on The Nicholas Effect by Reg Green. It
> is the true story of how the parents of a boy killed in Italy donated his
> organs to seven ill Italians. I am looking for fiction or non-fiction
> titles on organ or tissue donation. Any relation to the topic will do, and
> I am seeking multiple points of view.
>
> Also, I am seeking examples of movies or TV shows that have handled the
> issue, both poorly and well. These will be fodder for the discussion of
> the myths and realities of organ and tissue transplants. What I have so far
> in this area is:
> St. Elsewhere – artificial heart, doctor’s wife dies and patient gets heart
> LA Law – lawyers help client pay for an organ (liver or heart, I don’t
> remember)
> Chicago Hope – rich man pays for a new liver, person brought into the
> hospital in a coma is declared dead but wakes up on the operating table as
> his organs are about to be harvested, animal organ placed in human (heart I
> think)
> A TV Movie based on a true story starring Chad Lowe as the young recipient
> of a new heart (If anyone can remember the name, I would be most grateful)
>
> I just know there are more, so please share any you can remember!
>
> Thanks again, you guys are awesome!
> Hillary Theyer
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
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>

FROM: Spencer Ms Martha <[removed]@usmc-mccs.org>
REC'D: 1/22/01, 7:27 AM

I thought that was a hilarious episode, having just received an e-mail on a
list from someone who was circulating the same story as reality.

Martha

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Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2001 10:58 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Re: fiction on organ/tissue donation


Law & Order had an episode a couple of years ago where a man was kidnapped,
his kidney extracted, and he was left for dead in the park. The man behind
the crime was extremely wealthy, and he wanted the organ for his daughter.

Binnie Syril Braunstein
romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: "Sarah Stein" <[removed]@denver.lib.co.us>
REC'D: 1/22/01, 10:33 AM

Re: I am looking for fiction or non-fiction
titles on organ or tissue donation. Any relation to the topic will do, and
I am seeking multiple points of view.
Has no one yet mentioned Larry Niven's Known space books? Unfortunately I do not have a list of the titles.
A few possibilities with recent editions:
Three books of known space
Crashlander
Flatlander : the collected tales of Gil "the Arm" Hamilton

Warning: Much of the organ "donation" is NOT voluntary....

Sarah

Sarah Stein
Senior Special Collections Librarian
Denver Public Library
Denver, Colorado, USA
[removed]@denver.lib.co.us

FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 1/22/01, 10:46 AM

>From: Theyer Hillary <[removed]@TORRNET.COM>
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: fiction on organ/tissue donation
>Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 13:44:40 -0800
>
>We are planning a book discussion on The Nicholas Effect by Reg Green. It
>is the true story of how the parents of a boy killed in Italy donated his
>organs to seven ill Italians. I am looking for fiction or non-fiction
>titles on organ or tissue donation. Any relation to the topic will do, and
>I am seeking multiple points of view.
>

If sf would qualify, some of Larry Niven's fictions focus on the issue of
"organleggers," people who "acquire" organs for transplant. I'm sure Dennis
will be able to provide more detail.

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FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 1/22/01, 10:49 AM

>From: "Lisa Colcord" <[removed]@ci.glendale.az.us>
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: Re: fiction on organ/tissue donation
>Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 15:18:07 -0700
>
>Moviewise, there is the recent film with David Duchovny (sp) and Minnie
>Driver called Return to Me. His wife is killed in a car accident, the
>wife's heart is given to Minnie Driver, and then they meet.
>

There's also "Who is Julia?," a TV movie from the '80's featuring Jameson
Parker as the husband of a woman who either gets a brain transplant or has
her brain transplanted to a new body, I forget which!
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FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 1/22/01, 10:55 AM

>From: "Melanie C. Duncan" <[removed]@mail.bibb.public.lib.ga.us>
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: Re: fiction on organ/tissue donation
>Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 17:21:13 -0600
>
>Check out Tess Gerritsen, Robin Cook and Eileen Dreyer's medical thrillers.
>I know at least one of them wrote a book about people stealing
>organs/selling organs to the highest bidder.
>
>


You're probably thinking of Robin Cook's "Coma." Book and movie alike would
be germaine to the query.
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FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 1/22/01, 11:18 AM

Again - Dennis will surely know this -

I remember reading an SF story or novella (I don't think it was a book) where
humans were cultivated for the purposes of being tissue donors, and body
parts were whacked/hacked off as needed.

Dennis?

Binnie Syril Braunstein
romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 1/22/01, 11:21 AM

Would "The Fly" (original and remake) count?
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FROM: "Melissa Norton" <[removed]@bridgton.lib.me.us>
REC'D: 1/22/01, 12:54 PM

I am pretty sure it's CHARADE.
Melissa~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Melissa Norton [removed]@bridgton.lib.me.us
Asst. Librarian & Webmaster www.bridgton.lib.me.us
Bridgton Public Library
65 Main St.
Bridgton ME 04009
207-647-2472
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From: Renee Zurn <[removed]@duluth.lib.mn.us>
To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
Date: Monday, January 22, 2001 1:24 PM
Subject: Re: fiction on organ/tissue donation


I think one of Sandra Brown's novels deals with a woman getting a heart
transplant but I am not sure of the title. Also the following books had
transplantation of organs as a subject heading in our OPAC -
Harvest by T. Gerritsen, Donor by C. Wilson, Dark Homecoming by E.
Lustbader, Positive Match by T. Chiu, Gift of Live by H. Denker, Angel Maker
by R. Pearson, and J Factor by S. Kanar.

How these help!

Renee Zurn
Duluth Public Library
520 W. Superior St.
Duluth MN 55802

FROM: Dennis Lien <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 1/22/01, 1:02 PM

At 12:09 PM 1/22/01 EST, you wrote:
>Again - Dennis will surely know this -
>
>I remember reading an SF story or novella (I don't think it was a book)
where
>humans were cultivated for the purposes of being tissue donors, and body
>parts were whacked/hacked off as needed.
>
>Dennis?
>
>Binnie Syril Braunstein
>romance novelist/former librarian


Probably SPARES by Michael Marshall Smith (Bantam, 1997). It's not a
new idea (treated in earlier short stories and in at least one movie,
THE CLONUS HORROR (1979), which got the MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER treatment

http://www.scifi.com/mst3000/experiments/811/

but Smith's seems to have made the biggest stir).

A couple other notes, while I'm at it: another relevant Larry Niven
story not already named is THE PATCHWORK GIRL. And there are a lot
of "crawling hand" or "evil hand transplant" horror stories both in
prose and movies/television. A couple of the latter were named
(THE BEAST WITH FIVE FINGERS and THE HAND) but without noting
presence of preceding short story by W. H. Harvey in the first case
and a paperback novelization by Marc Brandel in the second. There's
also THE HANDS OF KANE by "Martin Thomas" (pseudonym for I-don't-
remember-who-offhand) and a story by Darrell Schweitzer in WE ARE
ALL LEGENDS, but the best-known version (movie with subsequent
novelization published, I think, only as a British paperback) is
THE HANDS OF ORLAC.

An early and especially "spare-partish" novel is CHOICE CUTS by the
French writing team of Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac, made into
the minor movie BODY PARTS. (Boileau-Narcejac are perhaps best known
in the US as the authors of the story Hitchcock's movie VERTIGO
was derived from.) CHOICE CUTS appeared in 1965 in France, 1966 in
the UK, 1968 in the US.

You might also want to check out Michael Blumlein's "Tissue Ablation
and Variant Regeneration: A Case Report," an extremely gruesome
and savage satire in his collection THE BRAINS OF RATS (1990). I think
some of Blumlein's other fiction is relevant here also, but I've read
almost none of it.


Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu

FROM: Kathy Lee <[removed]@jefferson.lib.co.us>
REC'D: 1/22/01, 1:20 PM

Try Pulse by Edna Buchanan. It's about a heart transplant where the
recipient takes on characteristics of the donor.
Kathy Lee
Jefferson County Public Libraries

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Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2001 11:56 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Re: fiction on organ/tissue donation


There is a very recent movie starring David Duchovny & Minnie Driver. His
wife gets killed in an accident. Minnie Driver gets her heart. They meet
before each finds out about what happened. A very touching, poignant movie.

Great supporting cast. (Carroll O'Connor, etc.)

Binnie Syril Braunstein
romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: "Brad Scott" <[removed]@ci.allen.tx.us>
REC'D: 1/22/01, 1:27 PM

>I remember reading an SF story or novella (I don't think it was a >book) where humans were cultivated for the purposes of being tissue >donors, and body parts were whacked/hacked off as needed.

Cordwainer Smith wrote a short story or novella with this theme. I believe it was titled "A Planet Called Sheol", although I don't have a copy to check against at this moment. I am almost certain, though, that it appears in the recent NESFA press collection of Smith's short fiction, titled "The Rediscovery of Man."

Orson Scott Card also wrote a novel with a similar setting: "A Planet Called Treason". (I wonder -- is the similarity of titles a coincidence? Perhaps only Mr. Card knows for sure.)

Bradley A. Scott
Allen (Texas) Public Library

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FROM: "Renee Zurn" <[removed]@duluth.lib.mn.us>
REC'D: 1/22/01, 1:32 PM

I think one of Sandra Brown's novels deals with a woman getting a heart transplant but I am not sure of the title. Also the following books had transplantation of organs as a subject heading in our OPAC -
Harvest by T. Gerritsen, Donor by C. Wilson, Dark Homecoming by E. Lustbader, Positive Match by T. Chiu, Gift of Live by H. Denker, Angel Maker by R. Pearson, and J Factor by S. Kanar.

How these help!

Renee Zurn
Duluth Public Library
520 W. Superior St.
Duluth MN 55802

FROM: Dennis Lien <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 1/22/01, 1:49 PM

At 01:09 PM 1/22/01 -0600, you wrote:
>>I remember reading an SF story or novella (I don't think it was a >book)
where humans were cultivated for the purposes of being tissue >donors, and
body parts were whacked/hacked off as needed.
>
>Cordwainer Smith wrote a short story or novella with this theme. I
believe it was titled "A Planet Called Sheol", although I don't have a copy
to check against at this moment. I am almost certain, though, that it
appears in the recent NESFA press collection of Smith's short fiction,
titled "The Rediscovery of Man."
>
>Orson Scott Card also wrote a novel with a similar setting: "A Planet
Called Treason". (I wonder -- is the similarity of titles a coincidence?
Perhaps only Mr. Card knows for sure.)
>
>Bradley A. Scott
>Allen (Texas) Public Library
>

The Cordwainer Smith is "A Planet Named Shayol." I'll take your word
on the plot--don't recall it well enough to say (other than I do recall
it involves prisoners on a hellish prison planet being mistreated in
various ways).

The Card book was later revised and expanded and retitled just TREASON.
I thought the book had been preceded by a novelette version, but a
quick and dirty check doesn't confirm that.

Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu

FROM: Sherri Lazenby <[removed]@dallaslibrary.org>
REC'D: 1/22/01, 1:59 PM

This may be getting a little off the topic, but there was a Diagnosis Murder
episode where renegade cops were killing criminals whose blood type matched
people's on the top of the transplant list and putting donor stickers on
their driver's licenses.

Sherri L. Lazenby
[removed]@dallaslibrary.org <[removed]@dallaslibrary.org>
Branch Manager
Audelia Road Branch Library
Dallas Public Library System
10045 Audelia Road
Dallas, TX 75238
(214) 670-1350
(214) 670-0790 FAX

-----Original Message-----
From: aaron smith [[removed]@oplin.lib.oh.us]
Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2001 3:31 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Re: fiction on organ/tissue donation

One possible suggestion for an approach to this topic might be the
ending
sequence of the movie _Jesus of Montreal_, in which organ transplant
is
used as a metaphor for (or perhaps as a manifestation of)
resurrection.

Aaron Smith
Clermont County Public Library, Ohio

On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Theyer Hillary wrote:

> We are planning a book discussion on The Nicholas Effect by Reg
Green. It
> is the true story of how the parents of a boy killed in Italy
donated his
> organs to seven ill Italians. I am looking for fiction or
non-fiction
> titles on organ or tissue donation. Any relation to the topic
will do, and
> I am seeking multiple points of view.
>
> Also, I am seeking examples of movies or TV shows that have
handled the
> issue, both poorly and well. These will be fodder for the
discussion of
> the myths and realities of organ and tissue transplants. What I
have so far
> in this area is:
> St. Elsewhere - artificial heart, doctor's wife dies and patient
gets heart
> LA Law - lawyers help client pay for an organ (liver or heart, I
don't
> remember)
> Chicago Hope - rich man pays for a new liver, person brought into
the
> hospital in a coma is declared dead but wakes up on the operating
table as
> his organs are about to be harvested, animal organ placed in human
(heart I
> think)
> A TV Movie based on a true story starring Chad Lowe as the young
recipient
> of a new heart (If anyone can remember the name, I would be most
grateful)
>
> I just know there are more, so please share any you can remember!
>
> Thanks again, you guys are awesome!
> Hillary Theyer
>
>
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FROM: "Marla" <[removed]@orion.mtgr.mtlib.org>
REC'D: 1/22/01, 2:29 PM

This will probably be of little help. I usually don't read books on
that subject area, but I remember one I read in high school. I
thought it was called COLD CUTS (don't remember the author) but
didn't find any listing anywhere. So now my memory is probably
faulty, too. (-;

It was a gruesomely interesting story. A criminal was sentenced
to death, and his various body parts given to recipients. The doctor
(I think) who originally did all the grafting, etc. then began
murdering the recipients so he could reassemble the parts into the
criminal again. The criminal and doctor had this all worked out
before the criminal's death. Quite a concept.

Maybe someone can remember the real title and/or author. BYE!

Marla/Great Falls Public Library/Acquisitions
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Great Falls MT 59401-2593
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Early is the name of the first, the next Too Fastidiously,
the third, Too Freely; the fourth is called Too Much, the
fifth Too Often.
I talk about them only briefly, because I have no fear that
you feed them. The Anchoress' Rule (c.1220)

FROM: Dennis Lien <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 1/22/01, 4:26 PM

At 01:14 PM 1/22/01 -0700, you wrote:
>
>This will probably be of little help. I usually don't read books on
>that subject area, but I remember one I read in high school. I
>thought it was called COLD CUTS (don't remember the author) but
>didn't find any listing anywhere. So now my memory is probably
>faulty, too. (-;
>
>It was a gruesomely interesting story. A criminal was sentenced
>to death, and his various body parts given to recipients. The doctor
>(I think) who originally did all the grafting, etc. then began
>murdering the recipients so he could reassemble the parts into the
>criminal again. The criminal and doctor had this all worked out
>before the criminal's death. Quite a concept.
>
>Maybe someone can remember the real title and/or author. BYE!
>
>Marla/Great Falls Public Library/Acquisitions

This is CHOICE CUTS, which I cited in a message earlier today, to wit:

"An early and especially "spare-partish" novel is CHOICE CUTS by the
French writing team of Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac, made into
the minor movie BODY PARTS. (Boileau-Narcejac are perhaps best known
in the US as the authors of the story Hitchcock's movie VERTIGO
was derived from.) CHOICE CUTS appeared in 1965 in France, 1966 in
the UK, 1968 in the US."

Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu

FROM: Lisa Olsen <[removed]@clsn1269.cumberland.lib.nc.us>
REC'D: 1/22/01, 5:00 PM

The third movie mentioned below was "Blink" starring Madeleine Stowe and
Aidan Quinn.


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On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Sherri Lazenby wrote:

> Just a couple of movies off the top of my head. Both romantic comedies of a
> sort, so I don't know if they are what you are looking for.
>
> Untamed Heart (1993) Christian Slater and Marisa Tomei. Christian Slater
> plays an orphan who has received a heart transplant when he was a child. He
> believes the heart was from a baboon (original title of the movie Baboon
> Heart). In the end he dies, but he dies happy.
>
> Return to me (2000) David Duchovny and Minnie Driver. Duchovny's wife dies
> in a car wreck. Minnie Driver gets her heart. Later they meet and fall in
> love, then discover the heart transplant and both get spooked.
>
> There was also a movie (I don't know if it was a made-for-TV or theatrical
> release) about a woman who gets a cornea transplant and thinks someone is
> stalking her. At first no one believes her because she still can't see
> clearly. Turns out she is being stalked by a hospital worker who (if I
> remember correctly) is related to the person who was the doner and is
> tracking down and killing all of the organ receivers. I'm just as bad as a
> patron. I remember all of this, but not the name of the movie. Maybe
> someone else out there will remember.
>
> If I think of anything else I'll let you know.
>
>
> Sherri L. Lazenby
> [removed]@dallaslibrary.org <[removed]@dallaslibrary.org>
> Branch Manager
> Audelia Road Branch Library
> Dallas Public Library System
> 10045 Audelia Road
> Dallas, TX 75238
> (214) 670-1350
> (214) 670-0790 FAX
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Theyer Hillary [[removed]@TORRNET.COM]
> Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2001 3:45 PM
> To: Fiction_L
> Subject: fiction on organ/tissue donation
>
> We are planning a book discussion on The Nicholas Effect by Reg
> Green. It
> is the true story of how the parents of a boy killed in Italy
> donated his
> organs to seven ill Italians. I am looking for fiction or
> non-fiction
> titles on organ or tissue donation. Any relation to the topic will
> do, and
> I am seeking multiple points of view.
>
> Also, I am seeking examples of movies or TV shows that have handled
> the
> issue, both poorly and well. These will be fodder for the
> discussion of
> the myths and realities of organ and tissue transplants. What I
> have so far
> in this area is:
> St. Elsewhere - artificial heart, doctor's wife dies and patient
> gets heart
> LA Law - lawyers help client pay for an organ (liver or heart, I
> don't
> remember)
> Chicago Hope - rich man pays for a new liver, person brought into
> the
> hospital in a coma is declared dead but wakes up on the operating
> table as
> his organs are about to be harvested, animal organ placed in human
> (heart I
> think)
> A TV Movie based on a true story starring Chad Lowe as the young
> recipient
> of a new heart (If anyone can remember the name, I would be most
> grateful)
>
> I just know there are more, so please share any you can remember!
>
> Thanks again, you guys are awesome!
> Hillary Theyer
>
>
> ......................................................................
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FROM: "Peel, Nancy" <[removed]@city.windsor.on.ca>
REC'D: 1/22/01, 7:19 PM

Two television episodes:

Chicago Hope also did a show where a rabbi was to get a donor heart, but the
nurse (surgeon's wife) accidentally dropped it.

Eerie, Indiana had an episode where a young daredevil was killed in a
traffic accident. His heart was transplanted into a female friend, who then
began exhibiting the same personality as he had.

Nancy Peel


-----Original Message-----
From: Theyer Hillary [[removed]@TORRNET.COM]
Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2001 4:45 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: fiction on organ/tissue donation


We are planning a book discussion on The Nicholas Effect by Reg Green. It
is the true story of how the parents of a boy killed in Italy donated his
organs to seven ill Italians. I am looking for fiction or non-fiction
titles on organ or tissue donation. Any relation to the topic will do, and
I am seeking multiple points of view.

Also, I am seeking examples of movies or TV shows that have handled the
issue, both poorly and well. These will be fodder for the discussion of
the myths and realities of organ and tissue transplants. What I have so far
in this area is:
St. Elsewhere – artificial heart, doctor’s wife dies and patient gets heart
LA Law – lawyers help client pay for an organ (liver or heart, I don’t
remember)
Chicago Hope – rich man pays for a new liver, person brought into the
hospital in a coma is declared dead but wakes up on the operating table as
his organs are about to be harvested, animal organ placed in human (heart I
think)
A TV Movie based on a true story starring Chad Lowe as the young recipient
of a new heart (If anyone can remember the name, I would be most grateful)

I just know there are more, so please share any you can remember!

Thanks again, you guys are awesome!
Hillary Theyer

FROM: "Barbara Scanio" <[removed]@gwmail.plano.gov>
REC'D: 1/23/01, 10:04 AM

Robert Heinlein wrote one about a terminally ill multimillionaire who had his brain transplanted into the body of his gorgeous secretary (who was murdered by someone else) It was written after Stranger... when he was being very interested in sex. I can't remember the name... Dennis?

>>> [removed]@jefferson.lib.co.us 01/22/01 01:16PM >>>
Try Pulse by Edna Buchanan. It's about a heart transplant where the
recipient takes on characteristics of the donor.
Kathy Lee
Jefferson County Public Libraries

-----Original Message-----
From: [removed]@aol.com [[removed]@aol.com]
Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2001 11:56 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Re: fiction on organ/tissue donation


There is a very recent movie starring David Duchovny & Minnie Driver. His
wife gets killed in an accident. Minnie Driver gets her heart. They meet
before each finds out about what happened. A very touching, poignant movie.

Great supporting cast. (Carroll O'Connor, etc.)

Binnie Syril Braunstein
romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: Dennis Lien <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 1/23/01, 10:34 AM

At 09:57 AM 1/23/01 -0600, you wrote:
>Robert Heinlein wrote one about a terminally ill multimillionaire who had
his brain transplanted into the body of his gorgeous secretary (who was
murdered by someone else) It was written after Stranger... when he was
being very interested in sex. I can't remember the name... Dennis?


I WILL FEAR NO EVIL (Putnam, 1970), universally considered either his
worst or second-worst novel, the other candidate being NUMBER OF THE
BEAST (1980). Or maybe third worst, as some would vote for FARNHAM'S
FREEHOLD (1965).

Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu

FROM: "Mary Rindfleisch" <[removed]@biblio.org>
REC'D: 1/23/01, 10:37 AM

I don't remember the date (sometime in the past 2 years?) but I have a vivid
recollection of this string being done on Fiction_L before. I did not save
the compiled list at the time, but maybe someone else did or remembers the
date more precisely.

Mary Rindfleisch
Adult Services/Readers' Advisory Librarian
Ridgefield Library
472 Main St.
Ridgefield, CT 06877
Phone: 203-438-2282
e-mail: [removed]@biblio.org

-----Original Message-----
From: [removed]@maillist.webrary.org
[[removed]@maillist.webrary.org]On Behalf Of Dennis Lien
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 12:52 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Re: fiction on organ/tissue donation


At 12:09 PM 1/22/01 EST, you wrote:
>Again - Dennis will surely know this -
>
>I remember reading an SF story or novella (I don't think it was a book)
where
>humans were cultivated for the purposes of being tissue donors, and body
>parts were whacked/hacked off as needed.
>
>Dennis?
>
>Binnie Syril Braunstein
>romance novelist/former librarian


Probably SPARES by Michael Marshall Smith (Bantam, 1997). It's not a
new idea (treated in earlier short stories and in at least one movie,
THE CLONUS HORROR (1979), which got the MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER treatment

http://www.scifi.com/mst3000/experiments/811/

but Smith's seems to have made the biggest stir).

A couple other notes, while I'm at it: another relevant Larry Niven
story not already named is THE PATCHWORK GIRL. And there are a lot
of "crawling hand" or "evil hand transplant" horror stories both in
prose and movies/television. A couple of the latter were named
(THE BEAST WITH FIVE FINGERS and THE HAND) but without noting
presence of preceding short story by W. H. Harvey in the first case
and a paperback novelization by Marc Brandel in the second. There's
also THE HANDS OF KANE by "Martin Thomas" (pseudonym for I-don't-
remember-who-offhand) and a story by Darrell Schweitzer in WE ARE
ALL LEGENDS, but the best-known version (movie with subsequent
novelization published, I think, only as a British paperback) is
THE HANDS OF ORLAC.

An early and especially "spare-partish" novel is CHOICE CUTS by the
French writing team of Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac, made into
the minor movie BODY PARTS. (Boileau-Narcejac are perhaps best known
in the US as the authors of the story Hitchcock's movie VERTIGO
was derived from.) CHOICE CUTS appeared in 1965 in France, 1966 in
the UK, 1968 in the US.

You might also want to check out Michael Blumlein's "Tissue Ablation
and Variant Regeneration: A Case Report," an extremely gruesome
and savage satire in his collection THE BRAINS OF RATS (1990). I think
some of Blumlein's other fiction is relevant here also, but I've read
almost none of it.


Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu

FROM: Vicki Novak - LIBRARYX <[removed]@MAIL.MARICOPA.GOV>
REC'D: 1/23/01, 10:42 AM

There is a list called "Traffic in Human Organs" on the Fiction_L booklist
page:
http://www.webrary.org/rs/flbklists/Human.html

Not exactly the same...I believe these books were about illegal "harvesting"
and selling of organs, rather than just organ donation and transplants.
However, some of these books might work for the current list.

Vicki Novak
[removed]@mail.maricopa.gov

Adult Services
North Central Regional Library
Maricopa County Library District
17811 N. 32nd St.
Phoenix, AZ 85032-1201

http://mcld.maricopa.gov

-----Original Message-----
From: Mary Rindfleisch [[removed]@biblio.org]
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 9:29 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: RE: fiction on organ/tissue donation


I don't remember the date (sometime in the past 2 years?) but I have a vivid
recollection of this string being done on Fiction_L before. I did not save
the compiled list at the time, but maybe someone else did or remembers the
date more precisely.

Mary Rindfleisch
Adult Services/Readers' Advisory Librarian
Ridgefield Library
472 Main St.
Ridgefield, CT 06877
Phone: 203-438-2282
e-mail: [removed]@biblio.org

FROM: "Rachel Berrington" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 1/23/01, 2:06 PM

I read a thriller/mystery recently that fits the bill.

"Blood Work" by Michael Connelly

It's about a former FBI agent, forced into retirement after a heart
transplant. Begins investigating a woman's death as a favor to her sister.
Soon enough, he finds out that he has the dead sister's heart and the
murderer is targeting organ donors!

-Rachel

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FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 1/23/01, 11:55 PM

NYPD Blue had an arc of stories touching on this subject the year before
last, when Jimmy Smits (Bobby) left the show. Something was destroying his
heart, and he needed a transplant. A cop was shot, and she authorized the
donation to Bobby.

Binnie Syril Braunstein
romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: "Katherine Merrill" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 1/29/01, 4:06 PM

Pulse by Edna Buchanan is a thriller about a man who receives a new heart,
then searches for the killer of his heart's donor.

Kate
******************************************
Katherine Merrill
Reference Librarian
Literature & Media Division
Rochester Public Library
Rochester, NY 14604
******************************************

>From: Theyer Hillary <[removed]@TORRNET.COM>
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: fiction on organ/tissue donation
>Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 13:44:40 -0800
>
>We are planning a book discussion on The Nicholas Effect by Reg Green. It
>is the true story of how the parents of a boy killed in Italy donated his
>organs to seven ill Italians. I am looking for fiction or non-fiction
>titles on organ or tissue donation. Any relation to the topic will do, and
>I am seeking multiple points of view.
>
>Also, I am seeking examples of movies or TV shows that have handled the
>issue, both poorly and well. These will be fodder for the discussion of
>the myths and realities of organ and tissue transplants. What I have so
>far
>in this area is:
>St. Elsewhere – artificial heart, doctor’s wife dies and patient gets heart
>LA Law – lawyers help client pay for an organ (liver or heart, I don’t
>remember)
>Chicago Hope – rich man pays for a new liver, person brought into the
>hospital in a coma is declared dead but wakes up on the operating table as
>his organs are about to be harvested, animal organ placed in human (heart I
>think)
>A TV Movie based on a true story starring Chad Lowe as the young recipient
>of a new heart (If anyone can remember the name, I would be most grateful)
>
>I just know there are more, so please share any you can remember!
>
>Thanks again, you guys are awesome!
>Hillary Theyer
>
>......................................................................
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>Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html


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