![]() ![]() It is an accessible read…you do not need advanced degrees to follow the story. Along the way, he has also discussed the philosophical and religious implications of all of these developments.ĭefinitely a recommended book. Then there were the many decades of teeth transplants! Craddock takes the story up to the present, with a sneak peak at what the future may hold. Those with imagination began to experiment in strange ways with animals. ![]() There was a segment of society that could not easily appear in public because of their disfiguring injuries though they were still healthy.īut at the time the notions of what could be done to or for the human body were still caught up up in bloodletting. Among the facts that struck me: among the major needs of some men of the 17th century were replacements or substitutes for noses and ears lost in duels. Surprisingly, to me, “medical” thinkers have been musing on this for millennia, since the days of the Greeks.Ĭraddock is a skilled writer, combining medical history, history, knowledge of medicine, and some good awareness of psychology along with a sharp wit in telling the tale, covering especially the past five centuries of transplant “thoughts” among the medical folk or those who were the nearest at the time, i.e. Spare Parts is an entertaining and highly informative overview of the history of man’s search for the ability to fix human bodies through transplanting healthy or man made parts for ones either lost or damaged. ![]()
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