The Origins of Organ Transplantation

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 he laysopen the historical origins of modern transplantation, offering a new and original analysis of its conceptual basis within a broader historical context. This first comprehensi