A history of organ transplantation : ancient legends to modern practice /
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.
9780822944133 (hardcover : acidfree paper)
2012008954
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.--History.