How Death Becomes Life Notes from a Transplant Surgeon

A beautifully written and compelling memoir of a largely unexplored area of medicine: transplant surgery. Leading transplant surgeon Dr Joshua Mezrich creates life from loss, moving organs from one body to another. In this intimate, profoundly moving work, he examines more than one hundred years of remarkable medical breakthroughs, connecting this fascinating history with the stories of his own patients. Gripping and evocative, How Death Becomes Life takes us inside the operating room and presents the stark dilemmas that transplant surgeons must face daily: How much risk should a healthy person be allowed to take to save someone she loves? Should a patient suffering from alcoholism receive a healthy liver? The human story behind the most exceptional medicine of our time, Mezrich's riveting book is a poignant reminder that a life lost can also offer the hope of a new beginning.

ISBN:	9781786498892
Publisher:	Atlantic Books
Imprint:	Atlantic Books
Published date:	02 Jan 2020
DEWEY:	617.954092
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	x, 371
Weight:	332g
Height:	197mm
Width:	129mm
Spine width:	29mm

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