Format:
Book
Author:
Mezrich, Joshua D., author.
Title:
When death becomes life : notes from a transplant surgeon / Joshua D. Mezrich.
Edition:
First edition.
Publisher, Date:
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019]
©2019
Description:
x, 371 pages ; 24 cm
Summary:
A transplant surgeon discusses the pioneers, science, and ethical challenges of organ transplantation as well as the ways that organ transplants have revolutionized medical care, and offers illuminating stories of his own patients.
Subjects:
Mezrich, Joshua D.
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Popular works.
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- History.
Transplant surgeons -- United States -- Biography.
Genre:
Biographies.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-358) and index.
Contents:
Part I: Out of body. A perfect organ ; Puzzle people -- Part II: The making of a transplant surgeon. The simple beauty of the kidney ; Skin harvest ; Kidney beans: making kidney transplant a reality -- Part III: Expanding the horizon beyond the simplicity of the kidney. Open heart: the invention of cardiopulmonary bypass ; Hearts on fire: making heart transplant a reality ; Sympathy for the pancreas: curing diabetes ; Prometheus revisited: liver transplants and Thomas Starzl -- Part IV: The patients. Jason: the secret is to live in the present ; Lisa and Herb: should we do liver transplants for alcoholics? ; Nate: the selection meeting, or Who gets an organ and why? ; Michaela: we are all the same on the inside -- Part V: The donors. As they lay dying ; Healthy donors: do no harm -- Part VI: Today and beyond. Complications ; Xenotransplantation: from one species to another ; So, you want to be a transplant surgeon?
ISBN:
9780062656209 (hardback)
0062656201 (hardback)
Other Number:
1081333144
System Availability:
8
Current Holds:
0
Control Number:
3663334
Call Number:
617.9/54
Course Reserves:
0
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