A history of organ transplantation
Hamilton, David, 1939-
A history of organ transplantation [electronic resource] / David Hamilton ; with a foreword by Clyde Barker and Thomas E. Starzl. - Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2012. - 1 online resource (640 p.) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
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.
9780822977841 0822977842
Organ transplantation--History.
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.--History.
Electronic books.
RD120.6 / .H+
A history of organ transplantation [electronic resource] / David Hamilton ; with a foreword by Clyde Barker and Thomas E. Starzl. - Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2012. - 1 online resource (640 p.) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
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.
9780822977841 0822977842
Organ transplantation--History.
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.--History.
Electronic books.
RD120.6 / .H+