Book ID: CBB236851941

The Origins of Organ Transplantation: Surgery and Laboratory Science, 1880-1930 (2013)

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Schlich, Thomas (Author)


University of Rochester Press


Publication Date: 2013
Physical Details: 365
Language: English

This book investigates a crucial -- but forgotten -- episode in the history of medicine. In it, Thomas Schlich systematically documents and analyzes the earliest clinical and experimental organ transplant surgeries. In so doing helays open the historical origins of modern transplantation, offering a new and original analysis of its conceptual basis within a broader historical context. This first comprehensive account of the birth of modern transplant medicine examines how doctors and scientists between 1880 and 1930 developed the technology and rationale for performing surgical organ replacement within the epistemological and social context of experimental university medicine. The clinical application of organ replacement, however, met with formidable obstacles even as the procedure became more widely recognized. Schlich highlights various attempts to overcome these obstacles, including immunological explanations and new technologies of immune suppression, and documents the changes in surgical technique and research standards that led to the temporary abandonment of organ transplantation by the 1930s.

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Authors & Contributors
Simon Hofmann
Astemir Shaikhaliev
Alexander Pankratov
Sharp, Lesley Alexandra
Sivaramakrishnan, Kavita
Aida, Lai
Concepts
Organ transplantation
Transplantation
Surgery
Organs; tissues
Medicine
Medicine and politics
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, late
20th century, early
Early modern
Places
Great Britain
United States
France
Switzerland
South Africa
Germany
Institutions
University of the Witwatersrand
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