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How did an architect help pioneer blood transfusion in the 1660s? What made eighteenth-century dentists become grave robbers? Did a seamstress really teach a surgeon how to stitch human skin? We think of transplant surgery as one of the medical wonders of the modern world. But transplant surgery is as ancient as the pyramids, with a history more surprising than we might expect. Paul Craddock takes us on a journey - from sixteenth-century skin grafting to contemporary stem cell transplants - uncovering stories of operations performed by unexpected people in unexpected places. Bringing together philosophy, science and cultural history, Dragon in a Suitcase explores how transplant surgery constantly tested the boundaries between human, animal and machine, and continues to do so today. It shows us that the history - and future - of transplant surgery is tied up with questions not only about who we are, but also what we are, and what we might become . .
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