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Mickle, Shelley Fraser. - Borrowing life : how scientists, surgeons, and a war hero made the first successful organ transplant a reality.

Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge, 2020. Hardcover. Dustjacket. 279 pp. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. - Performed at Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1954, the first successful kidney transplant was the culmination of years of grit, compassion, and the pursuit of excellence by a remarkable medical team--Nobel Prize-winning surgeon Joseph Murray, his boss and fellow surgeon Francis Moore, and British scientist and fellow Nobel laureate Peter Medawar. Drawing on the lives of these members of the Greatest Generation, Borrowing Life creates a compelling narrative that begins in wartime and tracks decades of the ups and downs, personal and professional, of these inspiring men and their achievements, which continue to benefit humankind in so many ways. ISBN 9781623545390.
EUR 16.00 [Appr.: US$ 18.77 | £UK 14 | JP¥ 2762] Book number #294820

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