Nuts and Bolts of Life
«One of the great untold stories of medical endeavour: how Willem Kolff, now 88, solved the problem of kidney failure and changed the course of human history. Written by writer and broadcaster Paul Heiney with the cooperation of Dr Kolff and family records.»
Paul Heiney describes here how one man - defiant, ingenious and stubborn - worked under impossible conditions in a country under the merciless occupation of Nazism to solve the problem of kidney failure and to change the course of human history. Les mer
It explains the science in accessible terms, and explores some of the human stories which developed along the way: the lives prolonged, new chances given to patients as the age of transplantation dawned, and the relationship between medical scientists and the army of technicians who make possible that strangest of 20th-century treatments - the circulation and purifying of the blood outside the human body.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Sutton Publishing Ltd
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- ISBN
- 9780750928946
- Utgivelsesår
- 2007
- Format
- 22 x 14 cm
Anmeldelser
«One of the great untold stories of medical endeavour: how Willem Kolff, now 88, solved the problem of kidney failure and changed the course of human history. Written by writer and broadcaster Paul Heiney with the cooperation of Dr Kolff and family records.»