{"product_id":"9781623545390","title":"Borrowing Life: How Scientists, Surgeons, and a War Hero Made the First Successful Organ Transplant a Reality","description":"\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Contributor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eMickle, Shelley Fraser\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImagine\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e4\/14\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eHardcover\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eNEW\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003cb\u003eAgainst a global backdrop of wartime suffering and postwar hope, \u003ci\u003eBorrowing Life\u003c\/i\u003e gathers the personal histories of the men and women behind the team that enabled and performed the modern medical miracle of the world's first successful organ transplant.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An extraordinary work.  Shelley Fraser Mickle  has not only provided a detailed, fascinating documentation of the  world's first successful organ transplant, but she has also painted the  lives of those involved--doctors, patients, family members--so vividly  that the reader is completely enthralled and emotionally invested in  their grieved losses as well as their successes. The result is a  beautiful tribute to medical science as well as to humanity.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJill McCorkle, NYT bestselling author of \u003c\/i\u003eLife After Life \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Working with Dr. Moore, Dr. Murray and Dr, Vandam to create the painting commemorating their historic operation and the research leading up to it was the greatest adventure of my artistic career. Having my painting on the cover of \u003ci\u003eBorrowing Life \u003c\/i\u003erenews that excitement, for I know what grand adventure is waiting for the reader.\" \u003ci\u003eJoel Babb\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e artist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I was so very pleased to be involved with Shelley as she wrote her captivating, compelling book. I only wish that Ron could be here with me to read it.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCynthia Herrick, wife of the first successful organ transplant donor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Had these men and women not worked diligently to save the life of Charles Woods, I and my 5 brothers and 3 sisters, would not have been born. Charles Woods and Miriam Woods are my parents. It is thrilling to read Ms Mickle's book as it closely mirrors the stories our dad and mom shared with us as children. The amazing thing is that as a disfigured war hero, our dad embraced his appearance as a badge of honor.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Woods \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e Performed at Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1954, the first successful kidney transplant was the culmination of years of grit, compassion, and the pursuit of excellence by a remarkable medical team--Nobel Prize-winning surgeon Joseph Murray, his boss and fellow surgeon Francis Moore, and British scientist and fellow Nobel laureate Peter Medawar. Drawing on the lives of these members of the Greatest Generation, \u003ci\u003eBorrowing Life\u003c\/i\u003e creates a compelling narrative that begins in wartime and tracks decades of the ups and downs, personal and professional, of these inspiring men and their achievements, which continue to benefit humankind in so many ways.","brand":"Imagine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42973153100031,"sku":"9781623545390","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0452\/0886\/2873\/files\/9781623545390_s600x595.jpg?v=1782147147","url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/de\/products\/9781623545390","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}