Defying the Gods Inside the New Frontiers of Organ Transplants

Name: Defying the Gods Inside the New Frontiers of Organ Transplants
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ISBN: 9780025828209

ISBN-10: 0025828207

ISBN-13: 9780025828209

Edition: N/A

Authors: Scott McCartney

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In Defying the Gods, Scott McCartney takes the reader inside the world of organ transplants, focusing on four patients at the Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas. Baylor is home to one of the top three leading transplant teams in the country - a pair of "Top Gun" cutters who have stretched the boundaries of science to save lives. Defying the Gods shows not only what goes on inside the operating room, but also details the circumstances that brought the patients and the organs to the operating table - because for every triumphant successful transplant, there is the death of the person who donated the organ. McCartney follows the four patients on this difficult journey, from the weeks…

Book details

List price: $22.00
Publisher: Scribner
Publication date: 6/22/1994
Binding: Children's Board Books
Pages: 320
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.75" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English