TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hamilton,David
TI  - A history of organ transplantation: ancient legends to modern practice 
SN  - 9780822944133 (hardcover : acidfree paper)
AV  - RD120.6 .H36 2012
U1  - 362.1979/5 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Pittsburgh, Pa.
PB  - University of Pittsburgh Press
KW  - Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc
KW  - History
N1  - 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
ER  -