Borrowing life : how scientists, surgeons, and a war hero made the first successful organ transplant a reality /
Mickle, Shelley Fraser,
Borrowing life : how scientists, surgeons, and a war hero made the first successful organ transplant a reality / by Shelley Fraser Mickle. - 279 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Peter Bent Brigham Hospital; Boston, Massachusetts; 1954. Nobel Prize-winning surgeon Joseph Murray and his team do the impossible. They transplant a donated kidney from Ronald Herrick to his twin brother, Richard, rescuing him from acute renal failure. This first successful organ transplant was the summit of a long hard climb by a group of scientists and surgeons across the globe. Borrowing Life profiles these giants of science and reveals the intimate, fascinating story of their decades-long struggle to save lives." --Publisher.
9781623545390 1623545390
2019015877
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital--History.
Kidneys--Transplantation--History.--Massachusetts--Boston
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.--History.
Borrowing life : how scientists, surgeons, and a war hero made the first successful organ transplant a reality / by Shelley Fraser Mickle. - 279 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Peter Bent Brigham Hospital; Boston, Massachusetts; 1954. Nobel Prize-winning surgeon Joseph Murray and his team do the impossible. They transplant a donated kidney from Ronald Herrick to his twin brother, Richard, rescuing him from acute renal failure. This first successful organ transplant was the summit of a long hard climb by a group of scientists and surgeons across the globe. Borrowing Life profiles these giants of science and reveals the intimate, fascinating story of their decades-long struggle to save lives." --Publisher.
9781623545390 1623545390
2019015877
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital--History.
Kidneys--Transplantation--History.--Massachusetts--Boston
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.--History.