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Author:

Hamilton, David, 1939-

Title:

A history of organ transplantation : ancient legends to modern practice / David Hamilton ; with a foreword by Clyde F. Barker and Thomas E. Starzl.

Publisher:

University of Pittsburgh Press,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

xx, 556 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Subject:

Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.--History.
Organ transplantation--History.
Organ Transplantation--history.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

0822944138 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
9780822944133 (hardcover : acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)761852881

LCCN:

2012008954

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Ankeny)

PNAX964 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Calmar (Calmar)

UXAX826 -- St. Ambrose University Library (Davenport)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)