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Transplant : from myth to reality /
"One of the most spectacular medical advances of the twentieth century, organ transplantation has become a generally effective and routine treatment for patients with organ failure. In this riveting book, a well-known expert in the fields of clinical transplantation and transplantation research...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2003]
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Legends, possibilities, and disasters
- Attempts and failures
- Hopes and occasional successes
- Host defenses and immunity
- Peter Medawar and transplantation biology
- Innovation and the struggle for legitimacy
- Prolongation of life and death
- New departures
- The Dracula of modern technology
- The abdominal viscera
- A modern Minotaur
- Coming of age
- The industrialization of transplantation
- Unexpected specters
- Future prospects.