David Hamilton ; with a foreword by Clyde F. Barker and Thomas E. Starzl
Pittsburgh, Pa. :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
c2012
xx, 556 p. :
ill. ;
26 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction: toward the impossible -- Early transplantation -- The eighteenth century -- The reawakening -- Clinical and academic transplantation in Paris -- The beginning of organ transplantation -- The "lost era" of transplantation immunology -- Anarchy in the 1920s -- Progress in the 1930s -- Understanding the mechanism -- Experimental organ transplantation -- Transplantation tolerance and beyond -- Hopes for radiation tolerance -- The emergence of chemical immunosuppression -- Support from hemodialysis and immunology in the 1960s -- Progress in the mid-1960s -- Brain death and the "year of the heart" -- The plateau of the early 1970s -- The arrival of cyclosporine -- Waiting for the xenografts -- Conclusion: lessons from the history of transplantation
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This book is a comprehensive exploration of transplant surgery, from classical times to the present day
History of organ transplantation.
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.-- History