Spare Parts The Story of Medicine Through the History of Transplant Surgery [Audiobook]

English | ASIN: B09GQTNN3V | 2022 | 9 hours and 54 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 272 MB
Paul Craddock's Spare Parts offers an original look at the history of medicine itself through the rich, compelling, and delightfully macabre story of transplant surgery from ancient times to the present day. We think of transplant surgery as one of the medical wonders of the modern world. But transplant surgery is as ancient as the pyramids, with a history more surprising than we might expect. Paul Craddock takes us on a journey—from sixteenth-century skin grafting to contemporary stem cell transplants—uncovering stories of operations performed by unexpected people in unexpected places. Bringing together philosophy, science and cultural history, Spare Parts explores how transplant surgery constantly tested the boundaries between human, animal, and machine, and continues to do so today. Witty, entertaining, and at times delightfully macabre, Spare Parts shows us that the history—and future—of transplant surgery is tied up with questions about not only who we are, but also what we are, and what we might become.