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By Thomas E. Starzl. 364 pp., illustrated. Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992. $24.95. ISBN 0-8229-3714-X.

Peter Medawar, the late doyen of transplantation biology, once noted that the lives of scientists usually make dull reading. But books about the struggles of clinicians (particularly surgeons) to cure disease, or at least to keep it at bay, captivate the public. The autobiography of Thomas Starzl (who coincidentally is first author of the original article that begins on page 745 of this issue), a major force in transplantation surgery for almost four decades, is in this tradition.

Starzl was born in a small town in Iowa. He became interested in neurophysiology while in medical school at Northwestern, then in . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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