Graft - How a Pioneering Operation Sparked the Modern Age of Organ Transplants

The Graft provides insight into a long-forgotten kidney transplant that helped spark the modern age of organ transplantation.

List of contents

Introduction; Chapter 1: The Moment; Chapter 2: The First Transplant; Chapter 3: The Pioneers; Chapter 4: The Operation; Chapter 5: The Backlash; Chapter 6: The Kidney Crisis; Chapter 7: The Transplant Patients; Chapter 8: The Transplant Surgeons; Chapter 9: The Transplant Center; Afterword.

About the author

Edmund O. Lawler is a journalist, an author and a journalism instructor at DePaul University in Chicago.

Summary

The Graft provides insight into a long-forgotten kidney transplant that helped spark the modern age of organ transplantation.

Product details

• Authors: Edmund Lawler, Edmund O. Lawler, Lawler Edmund O., Edmund O. Lawler
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2021
• EAN: 9781785278341
• ISBN: 978-1-78527-834-1
• No. of pages: 250
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; SCIENCE / History, HISTORY / United States / State & Local / General, MEDICAL / Surgery / Transplant, Medical, History of Science, Local History, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Transplant Surgery