Today, astonishing surgical breakthroughs are making limb transplants, face transplants, and a host of other previously un dreamed of operations possible. But getting here has not been a simple story of medical progress. In "Blood and Guts," veteran science writer Richard Hollingham weaves a compell[...]
Surgical breakthroughs are making face transplants, limb transplants and a host of other previously undreamed of operations possible. This book presents a story of stolen corpses, medical fraud, lobotomized patients - and every now and then courageous advances that have saved the lives of millions a[...]