The first transplant surgeon : the flawed genius of Nobel prize winner, Alexis Carrel / David Hamilton.

Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, [2017]

xviii, 587 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Lyon days -- New life in North America -- Early years at the Institute -- Carrel established -- The birth of tissue culture -- The Nobel prize -- Heart and blood vessel surgery -- War in France -- The demonstration hospital -- Early 1920s research -- Life in the 1920s -- Confidence gone -- His book "Man, the unknown" -- The organ pump -- Wider involvement -- Retirement nears -- To France and back -- Back to France -- Aftermath.