A history of organ transplantation
By: David Hamilton ; with a foreword by Clyde Barker and Thomas E. Starzl
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Pittsburgh, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 556
ISBN-13: 9780822944133
Subjects: Transplantation of organs, tissues; Organ transplantation; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Toward the Impossible; title: Early Transplantation; title: The Eighteenth Century; title: The Reawakening; title: Clinical and Academic Transplantation in Paris; title: The Beginning of Organ Transplantation; title: The Lost Era of Transplantation Immunology; title: Anarchy in the 1920s; title: Progress in the 1930s; title: Understanding the Mechanism; title: Experimental Organ Transplantation; title: Transplantation Tolerance and Beyond; title: Hopes for Radiation Tolerance; title: The Emergence of Chemical Immunosuppression; title: Support from Hemodialysis and Immunology in the 1960s; title: Progress in the Mid-1960s; title: Brain Death and the "Year of the Heart"; title: The Plateau of the Early 1970s; title: The Arrival of Cyclosporine; title: Waiting for the Xenografts; title: Conclusion: Lessons from the History of Transplantation.