When death becomes life : notes from a transplant surgeon

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ISBN: 9780062656209
Physical Description 371 pages ; 24 cm
Edition First edition.
Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2019.

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When Death Becomes Life : Notes from a Transplant Surgeon

by Mezrich, Joshua D.

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Section	Section Description	Page Number
	Note from the Author	p. ix
	Milestones in Transplantation	p. xi
Part I	Out of Body
1	A Perfect Organ	p. 3
2	Puzzle People	p. 11
Part II	The Making of a Transplant Surgeon
3	The Simple Beauty of the Kidney	p. 35
4	Skin Harvest	p. 53
5	Kidney Beans: Making Kidney Transplant a Reality	p. 67
Part III	Expanding the Horizon Beyond the Simplicity of the Kidney
6	Open Heart: The Invention of Cardiopulmonary Bypass	p. 103
7	Hearts on Fire: Making Heart Transplant a Reality	p. 130
8	Sympathy for the Pancreas: Curing Diabetes	p. 163
9	Prometheus Revisited: Liver Transplants and Thomas Starzl	p. 178
Part IV	The Patients
10	Jason: The Secret Is to Live in the Present	p. 209
11	Lisa and Herb: Should We Do Liver Transplants for Alcoholics?	p. 222
12	Nate: The Selection Meeting, or Who Gets an Organ and Why?	p. 239
13	Michaela: We Are All the Same on the Inside	p. 255
Part V	The Donors
14	As They Lay Dying	p. 271
15	Healthy Donors: Do No Harm	p. 292
Part VI	Today and Beyond
16	Complications	p. 309
17	Xenotransplantation: From One Species to Another	p. 322
18	So, You Want to Be a Transplant Surgeon?	p. 329
	Acknowledgments	p. 343
	Notes	p. 349
	Selected Bibliography	p. 357
	Index	p. 359