A History of Organ Transplantation: Ancient Legends to Modern Practice

Bibliographic Essay

527 Bibliographic Essay Major Works Substantial works on the history of transplantation include René Küss, An Illustrated History of Organ Transplantation: The Great Adventure of the Century (Rueil-Malmaison, France: Sandoz, 1992); Nicholas Tilney, Transplant: From Myth to Reality (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003); Nadey S.Hakim and Vassilios E.Papalois, eds., History of Organ and Tissue Transplantation (London: Imperial College Press, 2003); Leslie Brent, A History of Transplantation Immunology (San Diego: Academic Press, 1997); and Henk J.Klasen, History of Free Skin Grafting: Knowledge or Empiricism? (Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1981). Thomas Schlich, The Origins of Organ Transplantation (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2010) covers the period 1880–1930, as does Susan E.Lederer in Flesh and Blood: Organ Transplantation and Blood Transfusion in Twentieth Century America (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008). A major source on more recent times is Paul I.Terasaki, ed., History of Transplantation: Thirty-Five Recollections (Los Angeles : UCLA Tissue Typing Laboratory, 1991), and Paul I.Terasaki, ed., History of HLA: Ten Recollections (Los Angeles: UCLA Tissue Typing Laboratory, 1990). Important articles are the collected essays in World Journal of Surgery 24, no. 7 (2000): 755–843, which has a “Historic Landmarks” listing attached. See also Thomas E.Starzl, “Personal Reflections in Transplantation ,” Surgical Clinics of North America 58 (October 1978): 879–93. There are historical vignettes in Leslie Brent and Robert A.Sells, eds., Organ Transplantation : Current Clinical and Immunological Concepts (London: Baillière Tindall, 1989). The thorough text by Sir Michael Woodruff, The Transplantation of Tissues and Organs (Springfield, IL: Thomas, 1960), was published on the eve of rapid expansion and has a massive bibliography on the subject to that date, and a personal account of these times is found in Francis D.Moore’s autobiography, Give and Take: The Development of Tissue Transplantation (Philadelphia: Saunders , 1964), with a revised edition titled Transplant: The Give and Take of Tissue Transplantation (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1972). See also Rupert E.Billingham and Willys K.Silvers, eds., Transplantation of Tissues and Cells (Philadelphia: Wistar Institute Press, 1961), and historical accounts of tissue transplantation are found as introductions to textbooks , notably John B.de C.M.Saunders, “A Conceptual History of Transplantation,” in Transplantation, edited by John S.Najarian and Richard L.Simmons (Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger, 1972), 3–25, and David Hamilton’s introductory chapter, “Kidney Transplantation : A History,” to Peter J.Morris, Kidney Transplantation : Principles and Practice, 6th ed., edited by Peter J.Morris and Stuart J.Knechtle (Philadelphia : Saunders, 2008), 1–8, as well as the introduction to Leo C.Ginns, A.Benedict Cosimi, and Peter J.Morris, eds., Transplantation (Malden, MA: Blackwell Science, 1999). Collected works of importance include the proceedings of the symposium to mark twenty-five years of transplantation at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, as reported in Transplantation Proceedings 13 (1981): supplement 1. For individual tissue-grafting endeavors, see Benjamin W.Rycroft, Corneal Grafts (London: Butterworth , 1955), and, for the development of blood transfusion , see Louis K.Diamond, “A History of Blood Transfusion,” in Blood, Pure and Eloquent: A Story of Discovery, of People, and of Ideas, edited by Maxwell M.Wintrobe (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1980), 690– 717. Extensive and useful bibliographies on the history of bone grafting are found in the early volumes of Transplantation Bulletin, volumes 1–5, from 1954 to 1958. The development of liver transplantation is described in Thomas E.Starzl, The Puzzle People (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992); in Starzl, “The Mother Lode of Liver Transplantation ,” Journal of Liver Transplantation Surgery 4, no. 1 (January 1998): 1–14; and in Thomas Starzl and John 528 Bibliographic Essay J.Fung, “Themes of Liver Transplantation,” Hepatology 51, no. 6 (June 2010): 1869–84. Bone marrow transplantation development is found in E.Donnall Thomas, “Landmarks in the Development of Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation,” World Journal of Surgery 24, no. 7 (July 2000): 815–18. Immunology Important historical texts on immunology relating to transplantation include Arthur M.Silverstein, A History of Immunology (San Diego: Academic Press, 1989), and Jacques F.A.P.Miller, “The Discovery of Thymus Function,” in Immunology: The Making of a Modern Science, edited by Richard B.Gallagher, Jean Gilder, Gustav J.V.Nossal, and Gaetano Salvatore (London and San Diego: Academic Press, 1995). Debra Jan Bibel, Milestones in Immunology: A Historical Exploration (Madison, WI: Science Tech, 1988), has excellent reprints and comments on the classic works. See also Pauline Mazumdar, ed., Immunology 1930–1980: Essays on the History...