Written by the liver transplant surgeon, Professor Calne, this text contains step-by-step illustrations for each operative procedure described. These have been drawn from photographs taken at operations and are accompanied by specific text, including anatomy and complications.

Operative Surgery

Calne, Roy

Pollard, Stephen G.

Medical Books

Lippincott, Williams, & Wilkins

<p>Our planet is beset by enormous and interconnected problems, behind which lies the central fact that the world can not support a population of over five billion people - a figure rapidly rising towards ten billion. A large proportion of the world's population is never far from death and exists in the direst of poverty, both ignorant and exploited. World peace and the future of our civilisation are threatened - not in the distant future, but right now. Many concerned scientists believe over-population to be the greatest threat to mankind. As Calne states in this book: "We stand on the edge of a global catastrophe and we must act soon".\nSir Roy Calne, the pioneer transplant surgeon who has already done so much to advance medical knowledge, has written this book with the aim of confronting the present dilemma with the same scientific method that has given us an advanced technological civilisation, but which - through medical advances - has given us greater life expectancy. Calne wishes to create an urgent dialogue with those who oppose birth control and to make the public aware of the real situation.\nThis book is educational in the widest sense. In giving us a history of our scientific past and its consequences, and the relationship that science has to the differing ethical and cultural traditions throughout the world, the author enables the present to be understood as growing out of all our yesterdays. Everyone can benefit from a book that presents knowledge so readably, and with such warmth, wisdom and humanity.</p>

Too Many People (World in Crisis)

Religion & Spirituality

John Calder Pub Ltd

This text chronicles the story of Sir Roy Calne, who made many scientific breakthroughs in the field of transplants and drugs that overcome the body's natural process of rejection. Sir Roy Calne discusses the moral dilemmas and ethical questions which the advancement of science makes more complex.

Sharp Compassion (The Ultimate Gift )

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Headline Book Publishing

In the past few years the transplantation of organs in man has received publicity unprecedented in medical history. The first heart grafts were covered by press, radio, and television on a scal~ equiva lent to the news of the outbreak of a major war. Unwarranted and extravagant optimism has been followed by bitter criticism. This has undermined public confidence in the medical profession and seriously impeded progress in an important endeavour aimed at reducing human suffering. This unfortunate situation has arisen from widespread ignorance amongst the public and the medical profession of the background, present achievements, and future potential of organ grafting. Short statements by experts, frequently misquoted or cut short by television interviewers, and misinformed derogatory pronouncements by prejudiced medically qualified men, with no knowledge of the field, have produced a sorry state of confusion. It is the purpose of this book to attempt to clarify organ transplantation. The principles of organ transplantation are common to all organs but I will confine most of the discussion to transplantation of four vital organs, namely the kidney, liver, heart, and lung. ROY CALNE Cambridge January 1970 CONTENTS Preface IX List of Illustrations Xlll Acknowledgements XVll I. THE IDEA I II. THE SURGERY 7 III. REJECTION 15 IV. PREVENTION OF REJECTION 23 v. TISSUEMATCHING 39 VI. ORGAN PRESERVATION 47 VII. SUITABLE DONORS 53 VIII. ORGAN TRANSPLANTS 57 IX. ETHICS AND THE LAW 81 X.

A Gift of Life: Observations on Organ Transplantation

Health, Fitness & Dieting

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