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Xeno: The Promise of Transplanting Animal Organs into Humans

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This book gives the reader a comprehensive and understandable overview of the exciting field of xenotransplantation. The authors discuss the pro's and contra's of xenotransplantation in great detail and manage to keep the reader fascinated. A must-read for those interested in medical science and progress!

Written by two world experts in the field, this book gives an excellent introduction and overview of one of the most exciting medical challenges of this new century. The authors explain in details and also with great clarity the historical and scientific aspects or organ transplantation. The reader understands the reasons why the medical community is searching for new methods to solve the problem of organ shortage. The medical challenge becomes a fascinating adventure.

I just finished reading XENO - it easily lives up to the reviews I read in "Nature" and "The New Scientist." I wish all medical books were this thoughtful (and easy to read).

I just finished reading XENO - easily lives up to the excellent reviews I read in Nature and the New Scientist.

If you liked what Song of the South did for American history, you will love Xeno's take on transplantion. Written by two individuals with a vested interest in promoting xeno-transplantation, the book glosses over the dangers inherent in putting organs from the animal thought to have the largest number of endogenous viruses into a severely and permanently immunosuppressed patient and then releasing that person in a unsuspecting world to be a human vector. The book alternates from blantant inaccuracies to sins of omission to the most impossibly naive spin on the abysmal history of this failed psuedo-science. I would love to think that the authors were just optimists but their resumes make it obvious that they have an enormous financial interest in keeping the dollars infused to their dangerous attempts at pseudo-science. This book is pure propaganda and the normally prestigous Oxford Press should be ashamed to have it on their list.