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“soft cover”
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Subject Area
TRANSPANT SURGERY
Book Title
Many Sleepless Nights
Original Language
English
Edition
First Edition
Subject
HEALTH SCIENCE, CREATIVE NONFICTION
Personalized
No
ISBN
9780822959052

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN-10
0822959054
ISBN-13
9780822959052
eBay Product ID (ePID)
972865

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
312 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Many Sleepless Nights : the World of Organ Transplantation
Subject
Surgery / Transplant, Surgery / General, Essays
Publication Year
1990
Features
Reprint
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Medical
Author
Lee Gutkind
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
19.1 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

Additional Product Features

LCCN
89-040585
Reviews
"Gutkind avoids sensationalism and presents an honest, thorough, and moving portrayal of hospital life." --Library Journal
Dewey Edition
19
Dewey Decimal
617/.95/009
Edition Description
Reprint
Synopsis
Although organ transplantation is the preeminent medical miracle of the last quarter of a century, Many Sleepless Nights is the first book to go beyond the headlines and describe the patients who have embraced this last chance to hold on to life, the intricate medical procedures that can save them, the surgeons and nurses who work in this emotionally charged world, and the ethics which complicate this "miracle" high-tech therapy. Lee Gutkind was granted unconditional access to the world's largest transplant center - the University of Pittsburgh's Presbyterian-University and Children's hospitals, where there is an organ transplant every eight hours, 365 days per year. For four years he immersed himself in the frantic night-and-day world of transplantation, living side by side with transplant candidates and recipients, jetting though the night with organ procurement teams, monitoring patients with surgeons and nurses, observing in the operating room, participating in the ethical and psychosocial evaluations of prospective patients which help to determine who will receive scarce organs. During his four years at Presbyterian and Children's Hospitals, Gutkind established close relationships with many patients, and his portrayal of them, living and sometimes dying under unbelievable stress, is a moving and dramatic statement about the capacity of human beings to endure. Many Sleepless Nights also outlines the history of organ transplantation and tells the story of the large and complex medical teams behind the operation. It captures the tension of the search for viable organs; the pressure decisions about which patients, among many, will receive them; and the surgery itself. Its vivid portrayal of the transplant pioneer Thomas Starzl - a man obsessed with saving lives - shows how a major innovator in American medicine functions during days and nights of extreme pressure., Although organ transplantation is the preeminent medical miracle of the last quarter of a century, "Many Sleepless Nights" is the first book to go beyond the headlines and describe the patients who have embraced this last chance to hold on to life, the intricate medical procedures that can save them, the surgeons and nurses who work in this emotionally charged world, and the ethics which complicate this miracle high-tech therapy. Lee Gutkind was granted unconditional access to the world s largest transplant center - the University of Pittsburgh s Presbyterian-University and Children s hospitals, where there is an organ transplant every eight hours, 365 days per year. For four years he immersed himself in the frantic night-and-day world of transplantation, living side by side with transplant candidates and recipients, jetting though the night with organ procurement teams, monitoring patients with surgeons and nurses, observing in the operating room, participating in the ethical and psychosocial evaluations of prospective patients which help to determine who will receive scarce organs. During his four years at Presbyterian and Children s Hospitals, Gutkind established close relationships with many patients, and his portrayal of them, living and sometimes dying under unbelievable stress, is a moving and dramatic statement about the capacity of human beings to endure. "Many Sleepless Nights" also outlines the history of organ transplantation and tells the story of the large and complex medical teams behind the operation. It captures the tension of the search for viable organs; the pressure decisions about which patients, among many, will receive them; and the surgery itself. Its vivid portrayal of the transplant pioneer Thomas Starzl - a man obsessed with saving lives - shows how a major innovator in American medicine functions during days and nights of extreme pressure. "
LC Classification Number
RD120.7.G88 1990

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