Edmund O. Lawler

The Graft (eBook, ePUB)

How a Pioneering Operation Sparked the Modern Age of Organ Transplants

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In a community hospital in suburban Chicago run by Catholic nuns, surgeons performed an operation never done in the world before. The team at the Little Company of Mary Hospital led by Richard Lawler transplanted a kidney in 1950 from a just-deceased woman into the abdominal cavity of a 44-year-old woman.

Critics in the medical community called the operation irresponsible because immunosuppressant drugs that prevent the rejection of a transplanted organ had yet to be developed. Some Catholic clergy considered the transplant sacrilegious because it "desecrated" the sacred body of a dead woman when her kidney was removed. Yet the nuns who ran the hospital blessed the procedure.

Lawler said time alone would judge its success. Seventy years later, that transplant is largely lost to history-overshadowed by remarkable transplant surgeries and medical breakthroughs that have made life-saving kidney and other organ transplants almost routine. The book throws light on a seminal moment in medical history, offering new insights into the early days of human organ transplantation while also looking at the current national kidney crisis.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. August 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781785278365
• Artikelnr.: 62642177

Autorenporträt

Edmund O. Lawler is a journalist, an author and a journalism instructor at DePaul University in Chicago.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1: The Moment
Chapter 2: The First Transplant
Chapter 3: The Pioneers
Chapter 4: The Operation
Chapter 5: The Backlash
Chapter 6: The Kidney Crisis
Chapter 7: The Transplant Patients
Chapter 8: The Transplant Surgeons
Chapter 9: The Transplant Center
Afterword.