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A History of Organ Transplantation is a comprehensive and ambitious exploration of transplant surgery—which, surprisingly, is one of the longest continuous medical endeavors in history. Moreover, no other medical enterprise has had so many multiple interactions with other fields, including biology, ethics, law, government, and technology. Exploring the medical, scientific, and surgical events that led to modern transplant techniques, Hamilton argues that progress in successful transplantation required a unique combination of multiple methods, bold surgical empiricism, and major immunological insights in order for surgeons to develop an understanding of the body's most complex and mysteriou...
James Murphy was born 6 July 1843 in Derry, County Londonderry, Ireland. He immigrated to the United States with his parents as an infant and arrived in New York 3 June 1844. In 1861, he enlisted in the military and served with the Union Army. James married Mary Josephine Brennan 29 April 1865 in New York City. Mary died 22 April 1892 and James married Agnes Frances Farrish. James was the father of four children and they were all from his second wife Agnes. Descendants lived primarily in New York and elsewhere.
Taxol is arguably the most celebrated, talked-about and controversial natural product in recent years. It is celebrated because of its efficacy as an anti-cancer drug and because its discovery has provided powerful support for policies concerned with biodiversity; talked about because in the late 1980s and early 1990s the American public was bombarded with news reports and special programmes about the molecule and its host, the Pacific yew; and controversial because during the early 1990s the drug and the tree became embroiled in a number of very sensitive political issues with wide implications for the conduct of public policy. The Story of Taxol tells this story.