![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Transplant surgery is far from an exclusively modern phenomenon,” he writes, “with a surprisingly long and rich history that stretches back as far as the pyramids.”Īnd so we are off, on a thrilling and often terrifying ride through transplantation and the theories and techniques that made it possible. “It seemed as if life itself had cascaded from one man’s body into another’s.” The operation is described as state of the art, yet Craddock, a senior research associate in the division of surgery and interventional sciences at the University College of London’s medical school, sets out to show the ancient roots of transplantation. “Before my eyes, the surgeon removed these devices and in a matter of seconds the kidney turned from gray to pink, then almost red,” Craddock writes. Clamps released, the new kidney comes alive, or appears to. Paul Craddock’s “Spare Parts: The Story of Medicine Through the History of Transplant Surgery” opens midoperation, as a donor organ (“this lifeless gray mass,” as Craddock describes it) is sewn into place. SPARE PARTS The Story of Medicine Through the History of Transplant Surgery By Paul Craddock ![]()
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