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  • How Scientists, Surgeons, and a War Hero Made the First Successful Organ Transplant a Reality
  • By: Shelley Fraser Mickle
  • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
  • Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (3 ratings)
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Against a global backdrop of wartime suffering and postwar hope, Borrowing Life 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.

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, Borrowing Life 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.
©2020 Shelley Fraser Mickle (P)2020 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
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Brillant

Truly brilliant story of the pioneering of organ transplantation. Excellently told and with perfect narration. As a renal transplant surgeon myself I was fascinated to hear about the personal lives, humanity and courage of the giants who gave us transplantation. The story is in no way limited to professionals in the medical field as it also reads as a basic story of extraordinary people in an extraordinary time period going about their day to day lives albeit with an amazing sense of mission.

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