MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2012008954
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005 20120731143133.0
008 120313s2012 paua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2012008954
020 $a9780822944133 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
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050 00 $aRD120.6$b.H36 2012
082 00 $a362.1979/5$223
100 1 $aHamilton, David,$d1939-
245 12 $aA history of organ transplantation :$bancient legends to modern practice /$cDavid Hamilton ; with a foreword by Clyde F. Barker and Thomas E. Starzl.
260 $aPittsburgh, Pa. :$bUniversity of Pittsburgh Press,$cc2012.
300 $axx, 556 p. :$bill. ;$c26 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: 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.
650 0 $aTransplantation of organs, tissues, etc.$xHistory.
650 0 $aOrgan transplantation$xHistory.