EAN: 9780241370254

SPARE PARTS - PAUL CRADDOCK GEBUNDEN

A DAILY MAIL BOOK OF THE WEEK'Spare Parts is a fascinating read filled with adventure  delight
and surprise' RAHUL JANDIAL  surgeon author of 'Life on a Knife's Edge''This is a joyful romp
through a fascinating slice of medical history' WENDY MOORE  author of 'The Knife
Man'_______________________________________________________________How did an architect help
pioneer blood transfusion in the 1660s?Why did eighteenth-century dentists buy the live teeth
of poor children?And what role did a sausage skin and an enamel bath play in making kidney
transplants a reality?We think of transplant surgery as one of the medical wonders of the
modern world. But transplant surgery is as ancient as the pyramids  with a history more
surprising than we might expect. Paul Craddock takes us on a journey - from sixteenth-century
skin grafting to contemporary stem cell transplants - uncovering stories of operations
performed by unexpected people in unexpected places. Bringing together philosophy  science and
cultural history  Spare Parts explores how transplant surgery constantly tested the boundaries
between human  animal and machine  and continues to do so today.Witty  entertaining and at
times delightfully macabre  Spare Parts shows us that the history - and future - of transplant
surgery is tied up with questions about not only who we are  but also what we are  and what we
might become. . .

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