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By Sir Roy Calne. 227 pp., illustrated. Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins, 1996. £45. ISBN 0-683-23094-8.

Sir Roy Calne, a world-renowned transplantation pioneer, presents in this book a unique blend of art and the pathos of transplantation surgery. As is the case with many uniquely talented surgeons, Calne felt an early urge to draw and paint, which resulted in the magnificent copy of Degas' "Ballerina," shown in this book. Calne's artistic training was enhanced when he met the great Scottish painter John Bellany, who became his patient and received a liver transplant. The resulting friendship and tutorship stimulated Calne's ambition to depict the high-tension events of transplantation on canvas. Touchingly dedicated to his patients and what . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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