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BL
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| Record Number
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587240
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b416459
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| Main Entry
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Hamilton, David,1939-
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| Title & Author
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A history of organ transplantation : : ancient legends to modern practice /\ David Hamilton ; with a foreword by Clyde F. Barker and Thomas E. Starzl
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| Publication Statement
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Pittsburgh, Pa. :: University of Pittsburgh Press,, c2012
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| Page. NO
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xx, 556 p. :: ill. ;; 26 cm
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| ISBN
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9780822944133 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
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: 0822944138 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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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
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| Abstract
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This book is a comprehensive exploration of transplant surgery, from classical times to the present day
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| Subject
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Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.-- History
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Organ Transplantation-- history
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| Dewey Classification
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362.1979/5
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| LC Classification
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RD120.6.H36 2012
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| NLM classification
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WO 11.1H217h 2012
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