History of transplantation : thirty-five recollections / [Paul I. Terasaki, editor].

Los Angeles : UCLA Tissue Typing Laboratory, [1991], ©1991.

viii, 704 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm

Sir Peter B. Medawar / L. Brent, R. Billingham, A. Mitchison, D. Pyke -- A geneticist's recollections of early transplantation studies / George D. Snell -- Human renal transplantation memories, 1951-1981 / René Küss -- Memories of old times / Jean Hamburger -- Reminiscences od a "transplanter" / Rupert E. Billingham -- Tolerance and GvHD: an exciting decade / Leslie Brent -- As remembered by H.M. Lee / David M. Hume -- Nobel prize lecture: the first successful organ transplants in man / Joseph E. Murray -- My thirty-five year view of organ transplantation / Thomas E. Starzl -- Transplantation: a personal recollection / Sir Michael Woodruff -- Episodes of the early years / Ernst J. Eichwald -- Early experiences in kidney transplantation / Willard E. Goodwin -- Recollections from the laboratory to the clinic / Sir Roy Calne -- The reestablishment of cadaver kidney transplantation: early kidney transplantation at the Cleveland Clinic / Willem J. Kolff, Satoru Nakamoto -- Recollections / H.M. Lee -- Transplantation: a Canadian career-giving experience / John B. Dossetor -- Some personal recollections on the development of transplantation / Paul S. Russell -- From the early days of human kidney allotransplantation to prospective xenotransplantation / G.P.J. Alexandre -- The life and times of a transplant immunosurgeon / Felix T. Rapaport -- Allogenic marrow grafting: a story of man and dog / E. Donnall Thomas -- Bone marrow transplantation: a story of stem cells / Dirk W. van Bekkum -- A heart transplantation narrative: the earliest years / Norman E. Shumway, Richard R. Lower, Eugene Dong -- A transplant odyssey / John S. Najarian -- A theoretical and experimental approach to transplantation: the Duke expeerience / D. Bernard Amos -- Histocompatibility / Paul I. Terasaki -- The eurotransplant story / Jon J. van Rood, A. van Leeuwen, J.G. Eernisse -- Recollection / Fritz H. Bach -- Reflections of a xenotransplanter / Keith Reemtsma -- The first human-to-human heart transplant / Christiaan N. Barnard -- Samuel L. Kountz / K. Butt, F.O. Belzer -- Organ preservation: a personal perspective / Folkert O. Belzer -- Personal memory of antilymphocyte serum and its impact on transplantation / Anthony P. Monaco -- Transplantation: personal recollections / Peter J. Morris -- History of transplantation / Rudolf Pichlmayr -- An overview of the evolution of transplantation: a personal experience / Raffaello Cortesini.

Includes bibliographical references and index.