Title:
When death becomes life : notes from a transplant surgeon
Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Date:
2019
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019]
©2019
Physical Description:
x, 371 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9780062656209
Abstract:
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.
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?
Personal Subject:
Language:
English
