Transplant : from myth to reality /
Nicholas L. Tilney.
- New Haven : Yale University Press, c2003.
- xii, 320 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-311) and index.
Ch. 1. Legends, Possibilities, and Disasters -- Ch. 2. Attempts and Failures -- Ch. 3. Hopes and Occasional Successes -- Ch. 4. Host Defenses and Immunity -- Ch. 5. Peter Medawar and Transplantation Biology -- Ch. 6. Innovation and the Struggle for Legitimacy -- Ch. 7. Prolongation of Life and of Death -- Ch. 8. New Departures -- Ch. 9. The Dracula of Modern Technology -- Ch. 10. The Abdominal Viscera -- Ch. 11. A Modern Minotaur -- Ch. 12. Coming of Age -- Ch. 13. The Industrialization of Transplantation -- Ch. 14. Unexpected Specters -- Ch. 15. Future Prospects -- Time Line.
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Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.--History.