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Against a global backdrop of wartime suffering and postwar hope, "Borrowing Life" gathers the personal histories of the men and women behind the team that enabled and performed the modern medical miracle of the world's first successful organ transplant. "An extraordinary work. Shelley Fraser Mickle has not only provided a detailed, fascinating documentation of the world's first successful organ transplant, but she has also painted the lives of those...
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2022.
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Offers a look at the history of medicine itself through the story of transplant surgery from ancient times to the present day. Craddock takes us on a journey - from sixteenth-century skin grafting to contemporary stem cell transplants - uncovering stories of experiments and operations performed by unexpected people in unexpected places. Bringing together philosophy, science and cultural history, this volume explores how transplant surgery constantly...
3) Sick girl
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In a thought-provoking memoir, a young law student recounts her harrowing battle with heart disease, from the initial misdiagnosis to the heart transplant that saved her life and ongoing recovery, offering a patient's perspective on the process and medical system and her efforts to build a new life.
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