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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hamilton, David, 1939-
Language:English
Published: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2012.
Subjects:
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. > History.
Organ transplantation > History.
Online Access:
ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2012 (Ebook Central @ Proquest)
EBSCO eBooks: 2012 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2012 (EBSCO)
eBook Public Library Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2012 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:
A History of Organ Transplantation: Ancient Legends to Modern Practice
Format: Electronic eBook
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.