Joseph E. Murray's Struggle to Transplant Kidneys : Failure, Individuality, and Plastic Surgery, 1950-1965
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This paper offers a historical analysis of the American plastic surgeon and Nobel laureate Joseph E. Murray's kidney transplantation. After succeeding in the first kidney transplantation between monozygotic twins in 1954, he transplanted kidneys between genetically distinct people after X-radiation and immunosuppressants. Amid these achievements, however, Murray encountered numerous failures, which he thought were closely intertwined with each patient's physiological and pathological individuality. As he appropriated his expertise in plastic surgery for kidney transplantation, this individuality became a major issue that he had to cope with in his efforts to avoid failures. To him, kidney transplantation could fail because of each individual's immunological barrier or constitutional singularity that could engender unexpected complications. Although he could neither explain nor control many of these failures, I argue that his unsuccessful work and patient individuality played multiple roles in shaping his operations as a plastic surgeon. They structured the path of his surgical research, made sense of it, defended him from criticism, and formed the way that he presented the results of his work with an immunological implication. Consequently, Murray, with little scientific training, articulated an important dimension of immunological tolerance relevant to clinical settings.
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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:79 |
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Journal of the history of medicine and allied sciences - 79(2024), 2 vom: 02. Apr., Seite 143-162 |
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Englisch |
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Park, Hyung Wook [VerfasserIn] |
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Date Completed 03.04.2024 Date Revised 03.04.2024 published: Print Citation Status MEDLINE |
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