Xeno: The Promise of Transplanting Animal Organs Into Humans

by David K.C. Cooper and Robert Lanza

Book Overview

The plight of a patient waiting months, sometimes years, for an organ transplant is one of the most heart-wrenching predicaments confronting medicine today. But the current critical shortage of human donor organs has had one positive consequence: it has stimulated promising new research into the field of xenotransplantation--the transplantation of organs from one animal species to another.
In Xeno: The Promise of Transplanting Animal Organs Into...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195128338
• ISBN13: 9780195128338
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Easily lives up to recent reviews

I just finished reading XENO - easily lives up to the excellent reviews I read in Nature and the New Scientist.

This book easily lives up to recent reviews

I just finished reading XENO - it easily lives up to the reviews I read in "Nature" and "The New Scientist." I wish all medical books were this thoughtful (and easy to read).

Overview of xenotransplantation

This book gives the reader a comprehensive and understandable overview of the exciting field of xenotransplantation. The authors discuss the pro's and contra's of xenotransplantation in great detail and manage to keep the reader fascinated. A must-read for those interested in medical science and progress!

Xenotransplantation, medical challenge of the new century

Written by two world experts in the field, this book gives an excellent introduction and overview of one of the most exciting medical challenges of this new century. The authors explain in details and also with great clarity the historical and scientific aspects or organ transplantation. The reader understands the reasons why the medical community is searching for new methods to solve the problem of organ shortage. The medical challenge becomes a fascinating adventure.