A history of organ transplantation : ancient legends to modern practice

Hamilton, David 1939- (Author).

Summary: This book is a comprehensive exploration of transplant surgery, from classical times to the present day.

Record details

ISBN: 9780822944133
ISBN: 0822944138
Physical Description: print
xx, 556 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Publisher: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©2012.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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.