Origins of Organ Transplantation: Surgery and Laboratory Science, 1880-1930

by Thomas Schlich

A history of the little-known or forgotten academic origins of modern organ transplant surgery.

This book investigates a crucial -- but forgotten -- episode in the history of medicine. In it, Thomas Schlich systematically documents and analyzes the earliest clinical and experimental organ transplant surgeries. In so doing helays open the historical origins of modern transplantation, offering a new and original analysis of its conceptual basis...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580464580
• ISBN13: 9781580464581
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 365 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.9"