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 Info | Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©2012. |
| Description | xx, 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 note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2012008954 |
| ISBN | 9780822944133 (hardcover : acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 0822944138 (hardcover : acid-free paper) |