Dropsy, dialysis, transplant : a short history of failing kidneys / Steven J. Peitzman.
2007
RC918.R4 P37 2007 (Mapit)
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Title
Dropsy, dialysis, transplant : a short history of failing kidneys / Steven J. Peitzman.
ISBN
9780801887345 (alk. paper)
0801887348 (alk. paper)
0801887348 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
Language
English
Description
xxi, 213 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Call Number
RC918.R4 P37 2007
Dewey Decimal Classification
616.6/14
Summary
The kidneys are sophisticated organs that filter waste from the blood. A number of diseases and disorders--including diabetes and hypertension--can harm the kidneys and cause them to fail. Historian and nephrologist Steven J. Peitzman traces the medical history of kidney disease alongside the personal experience of illness. Drawing on diaries, letters, and literary narratives, as well as on scientific writings, Peitzman charts the triumphs of medical innovators like Richard Bright, Thomas Addis, and Belding Scribner as well as the stories of persons, famous and not, who have struggled with the disease. Treatments have evolved from abdominal tapping and dietetics to hemodialysis and transplantation. Medical advances have improved the well-being and prognosis of persons with failing kidneys. Yet such persons remain on an arduous journey of chronic illness. Peitzman travels with them, from diagnosis to treatment, and witnesses their remarkable ability to cope.--From publisher description.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-207) and index.
Series
Johns Hopkins biographies of disease.
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Table of Contents
Swollen with dropsy
Richard Bright's new disease
Sympathy and flannel
Enter the microscope and the laboratory
Renal shutdown, a needle, and the end of Bright's disease
Inventing chronic dialysis
Coupled to the artificial kidney
The gift of life
Progression and renewal.
Richard Bright's new disease
Sympathy and flannel
Enter the microscope and the laboratory
Renal shutdown, a needle, and the end of Bright's disease
Inventing chronic dialysis
Coupled to the artificial kidney
The gift of life
Progression and renewal.