Book Title: A History of Organ Transplantation
Description: A History of Organ Transplantation is a comprehensive and ambitious exploration of transplant surgery—which, surprisingly, is one of the longest continuous medical endeavors in history. Moreover, no other medical enterprise has had so many multiple interactions with other fields, including biology, ethics, law, government, and technology. Exploring the medical, scientific, and surgical events that led to modern transplant techniques, Hamilton argues that progress in successful transplantation required a unique combination of multiple methods, bold surgical empiricism, and major immunological insights in order for surgeons to develop an understanding of the body’s most complex and mysterious mechanisms. Surgical progress was nonlinear, sometimes reverting and sometimes signific...
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Author(s): David Hamilton
Publisher(s): University of Pittsburgh Pre
Publish Date: 2012
Book Pages: 576
Industry Identifier: ISBN_10: 0822977842
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Subjects: Medical / History • Medical / Surgery / Transplant
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