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Edited by Leo C. Ginns, A. Benedict Cosimi, and Peter J. Morris. 942 pp., illustrated. Boston, Blackwell Science, 1999. $275. ISBN 0-86542-520-5.

This is a massive work, an encyclopedia of transplantation. There may never be a need for another book on transplantation. Nearly every word written about transplantation is found in this book or in its lists of references. Every conceivable avenue of the subject is explored fully and in considerable detail. To paraphrase Voltaire, however: a caution for the author determined to teach is that the best way to be boring is to omit nothing.

Russell's foreword is a beautiful synthesis of the subject, from the very beginning of transplantation research to the possibility of growing organs from stem cells — . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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