A history of the little-known or forgotten academic origins of
modern organ transplant surgery. 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 transplantmedicine 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 immunologicalexplanations 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. Thomas Schlichis
Professor and Canada Research Chair in the History of Medicine at
McGill University.
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