Every Living Creature
How Xenotransplantation Will Change Our Lives
$52.78
- Hardcover
264 pages
- Release Date
12 May 2026
Summary
The incredible history and promise of inter-species organ transplantation, from an award-winning transplant surgeon.
With more than 100,000 patients in the United States waiting for life-saving organ transplants, the shortage of organs will never be solved if someone must die for someone else to be saved. And yet a solution is well within reach—xenotransplantation, or the transplanting of organs between different species—the once unimaginable scientific achievement that Joshua Mezrich…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262051163 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262051168 |
| Author: | Joshua D. Mezrich |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 264 |
| Release Date: | 12 May 2026 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 152mm |
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ENDORSEMENTS
“A sensitive and beautifully recounted history of xenotransplantation, and a hopeful look toward a future in which more patients may live because of the incredible strides being made in this branch of medicine. Joshua Mezrich treads with care over this ethical minefield, but such is the moral and scientific force of this book that the reader is left asking not if, but when.”
—Angela Saini, author of The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule and Superior: The Return of Race Science
“The most comprehensive chronicle of the evolution of xenotransplantation, featuring a cast of quixotic personalities who dared to dream the impossible.”
—Robert Montgomery, MD, Chair, Professor of Surgery, and Director, NYU Langone Transplant Institute
“This is a stirring set of beautifully interwoven true stories revealing deep human drama, dreams, and the science behind the hope of millions of suffering patients desperately awaiting transplants. Objective, expert, and engaging.”
—George Church, Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School; author of Regenesis
About The Author
Joshua D. Mezrich
Joshua D. Mezrich is Professor of Surgery at the University of Wisconsin and holds the Mark A. Fischer Chair in Transplantation.
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