When Death Becomes Life

A transplant surgeon's “visceral tale of hearts and bones, surgical bravura, and the ‘web of transplantation’ that binds people who might never meet” ( Nature ) . At the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Joshua Mezrich creates life from loss, transplanting organs from one body to another. In this intimate, profoundly moving work, he illuminates the extraordinary field of transplantation that enables this kind of miracle to happen every day. Mezrich examines more than a hundred years of remarkable med