How death becomes life, Mezrich, Joshua (author)

Автор: Mezrich, Joshua
Название: How death becomes life
ISBN: 1786498871 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781786498878
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Описание: A beautifully written and compelling memoir of a largely unexplored area of medicine: transplant surgery.

Автор: Joshua Mezrich
Название: How Death Becomes Life
ISBN: 1786498863 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781786498861
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Описание: A beautifully written and compelling memoir of a largely unexplored area of medicine: transplant surgery.

Автор: Mezrich Joshua D.
Название: When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon
ISBN: 006265621X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062656216
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
Цена: 12530.00 T
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"Although When Death Becomes Life is about courage and innovation and dedication, it is foremost a book about hope.... This monumental and enthralling history of one of modern medicine's most rousing triumphs is a definitive testament to that hope, and to the brave physicians and patients whose sacrifices made it possible."
-- New York Journal of Books

A gifted surgeon illuminates one of the most profound, awe-inspiring, and deeply affecting achievements of modern day medicine--the movement of organs between bodies--in this exceptional work of death and life that takes its place besides Atul Gawande's Complications, Siddhartha Mukherjee's The Emperor of All Maladies, and Jerome Groopman's How Doctors Think.

At the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Joshua Mezrich creates life from loss, transplanting organs from one body to another. In this intimate, profoundly moving work, he illuminates the extraordinary field of transplantation that enables this kind of miracle to happen every day.

When Death Becomes Life is a thrilling look at how science advances on a grand scale to improve human lives. Mezrich examines more than one hundred years of remarkable medical breakthroughs, connecting this fascinating history with the inspiring and heartbreaking stories of his transplant patients. Combining gentle sensitivity with scientific clarity, Mezrich reflects on his calling as a doctor and introduces the modern pioneers who made transplantation a reality--maverick surgeons whose feats of imagination, bold vision, and daring risk taking generated techniques and practices that save millions of lives around the world.

Mezrich takes us inside the operating room and unlocks the wondrous process of transplant surgery, a delicate, intense ballet requiring precise timing, breathtaking skill, and at times, creative improvisation. In illuminating this work, Mezrich touches the essence of existence and what it means to be alive. Most physicians fight death, but in transplantation, doctors take from death. Mezrich shares his gratitude and awe for the privilege of being part of this transformative exchange as the dead give their last breath of life to the living. After all, the donors are his patients, too.

When Death Becomes Life also engages in fascinating ethical and philosophical debates: How much risk should a healthy person be allowed to take to save someone she loves? Should a patient suffering from alcoholism receive a healthy liver? What defines death, and what role did organ transplantation play in that definition? The human story behind the most exceptional medicine of our time, Mezrich's riveting book is a beautiful, poignant reminder that a life lost can also offer the hope of a new beginning.

Автор: Mezrich, Ben
Название: Accidental Billionaires, The
ISBN: 0099534665 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099534662
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Sex, Money, Betrayal and the Founding of Facebook. The fast-paced story of two Ivy-League outcasts who concocted a scheme to meet girls, and ended up inventing Facebook. Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg - an awkward maths prodigy and a painfully shy computer genius - were never going to fit in at elite, polished Harvard. Yet that all changed when master-hacker Mark crashed the university`s entire computer system by creating a rateable database of female students. Narrowly escaping expulsion, the two misfits refocused the site into something less controversial - The Facebook - and watched as it spread like wildfire across campuses around the country...

Автор: Mezrich, Ben
Название: Accidental Billionaires, The
ISBN: 0434019550 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780434019557
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: From the moment they met, Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg had an intense bond. Although frighteningly brilliant, both were outsiders at a school filled with polished prep school grads and long-time legacies, and they shared a disastrously geeky awkwardness - especially when it came to matters of the opposite sex.

Автор: Mezrich, Ben
Название: Breaking vegas
ISBN: 0099490994 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099490999
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: For nearly five years, he was known as the `Darling Of Las Vegas`; And he made millions of dollars playing blackjack, using three simple techniques that gave him the edge, techniques that are revealed in this book for the first time. This is his story, the ultimate true story of Las Vegas, the book Vegas doesn`t want you to read...

Автор: Ben Mezrich
Название: 21: Bringing Down the House
ISBN: 1416561706 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781416561705
Издательство: Simon & Schuster
Цена: 6120.00 T
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Автор: Mezrich, Ben
Название: Bringing Down the House: 21 (Film Tie-in)
ISBN: 0099498545 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099498544
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Tells the story of a successful scam in which teams of brilliant young mathematicians and physicists won millions of dollars from the casinos of Las Vegas, being drawn in the process into the high-life of drugs, high-spending and sex. This book presents the view of a closed, excessive, and utterly corrupt world.