A history of organ transplantation / David Hamilton ; with a foreword by Clyde Barker and Thomas E. Starzl.

Author/creator Hamilton, David, 1939-
Format Book
Publication InfoPittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©2012.
Descriptionxx, 556 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Subjects

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2012008954
ISBN9780822944133 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
ISBN0822944138 (hardcover : acid-free paper)