When death becomes life : notes from a transplant surgeon
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- ISBN: 9780062656209
- ISBN: 0062656201
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Physical Description:
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x, 371 pages ; 24 cm - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019]
- Copyright: ©2019
Contents / Notes
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-358) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Part I: Out of body. A perfect organ -- Puzzle people -- Part II: The making of a transplant surgeon. The simple beauty of the kidney -- Skin harvest -- Kidney beans: making kidney transplant a reality -- Part III: Expanding the horizon beyond the simplicity of the kidney. Open heart: the invention of cardiopulmonary bypass -- Hearts on fire: making heart transplant a reality -- Sympathy for the pancreas: curing diabetes -- Prometheus revisited: liver transplants and Thomas Starzl -- Part IV: The patients. Jason: the secret is to live in the present -- Lisa and Herb: should we do liver transplants for alcoholics? -- Nate: the selection meeting, or Who gets an organ and why? -- Michaela: we are all the same on the inside -- Part V: The donors. As they lay dying -- Healthy donors: do no harm -- Part VI: Today and beyond. Complications -- Xenotransplantation: from one species to another -- So, you want to be a transplant surgeon? |
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Genre: | Nonfiction. Popular Work. Personal Narrative. Nonfiction. Biographies. Biography. History. Popular works. Nonfiction. Biographies. |
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