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1 online resource (x, 364 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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University of Pittsburgh Press Digital Editions.
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Includes index. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-353) and index. |
| Summary |
Given the tensions and demands of medicine, highly successful physicians and surgeons rarely achieve equal success as prose writers. It is truly extraordinary that a major, international pioneer in the controversial field of transplant surgery should have written a spellbinding, and heart-wrenching, autobiography. Thomas Starzl grew up in LeMars, Iowa, the son of a newspaper publisher and a nurse. His father also wrote science fiction and was acquainted with the writer Ray Bradbury. Starzl left the family business to enter Northwestern University Medical School where he earned both an M.D. and a Ph. D. While he was a student, and later during his surgical internship at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, he began the series of animal experiments that led eventually to the world's first transplantation of the human liver in 1963. |
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Until the age of thirty-three, Starzl says, "I felt like a missile looking for a trajectory." His work with liver transplantation gave him a course for life and, despite initial setbacks and failures, he has pursued it relentlessly, eventually achieving stunning success. Throughout his career, first at the University of Colorado and then at the University of Pittsburgh, he has aroused both worldwide admiration and controversy. His technical innovations and medical genius have revolutionized the field, but Starzl has not hesitated to address the moral and ethical issues raised by transplantation. In this book he clearly states his position on many hotly debated issues including brain death, randomized trials for experimental drugs, the costs of transplant operations, and the system for selecting organ recipients from among scores of desperately ill patients. |
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There are many heroes in the story of transplantation, and many "puzzle people," the patients who, as one journalist suggested, might one day be made entirely of various transplanted parts. They are old and young, obscure and world famous. Some have been taken into the hearts of America, like Stormie Jones, the brave and beautiful child from Texas. Every patient who receives someone else's organ - and Starzl remembers each one - is a puzzle. "It was not just the acquisition of a new part," he writes. "The rest of the body had to change in many ways before the gift could be accepted. It was necessary for the mind to see the world in a different way." The surgeons and physicians who pioneered transplantation were also changed: they too became puzzle people. "Some were corroded or destroyed by the experience, some were sublimated, and none remained the same." |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Starzl, Thomas E. (Thomas Earl), 1926-2017.
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Starzl, Thomas E. (Thomas Earl), 1926-2017. |
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Starzl, Thomas E. |
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Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- History.
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Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. |
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History. |
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Organ Transplantation -- history. |
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Organ Transplantation. |
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General Surgery. |
| Indexed Term |
Humans Organs (Body) Transplantation |
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United States |
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Personal Narrative.
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Autobiographie.
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Erlebnisbericht.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Transplantatie.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Starzl, Thomas E. (Thomas Earl), 1926- Puzzle people 082293714X (DLC) 92000455 (OCoLC)25592398 |
| ISBN |
9780822972525 (electronic book) |
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0822972522 (electronic book) |
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082293714X |
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9780822937142 |
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