Steven J. Peitzman is a professor of medicine at Drexel University College of Medicine and a senior medical advisor at the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates.

• Foreword, by Charles E. RosenbergPrefaceAcknowledgments1. Swollen with Dropsy2. Richard Bright's New Disease3. Sympathy and Flannel4. Enter the Microscope and the Laboratory5. Renal Shutdown, a Needle, and the End of Bright's Disease6. Inventing Chronic Dialysis7. Coupled to the Artificial Kidney8. The Gift of Life9. Progression and RenewalNotesIndex

From time to time, a compelling little book arrives on the medical scene... Peitzman's book will be useful to a wide range of readers, from students in the biomedical sciences to researchers to laypersons. Choice 2008 Peitzman takes his readers through both the science and the clinical and ethical issues of transplantation. As a nephrologist himself, he know the medicine from the inside, and has great empathy for the patients he has spent his professional career treating. His mix of science and suffering makes for a fine book, always readable and often moving. -- W. F. Bynum Medical History 2009 This is a general interest book that takes the reader into a highly specified field of discovery and treatment. -- Cathy Rees Southeastern Naturalist 2008 As a physician-historian, Peitzman composes his account of the transformations of kidney disease with an eye to both the present and the past, shifting frequently between his reconstruction of experience and understanding over the centuries with contemporary theory and therapies, often pointing out with a quip the ironies or frustrations of modern health care. -- Chris Feudtner Bulletin of the History of Medicine 2009 The foregrounding of the patient is not the only merit of this carefully crafted book. It also shows how other disciplines feed into medicine and medical innovation; medicine is not a scientifically isolated occupation. -- Anne Hardy Journal of Interdisciplinary History 2009

Steven J. Peitzman is a professor of medicine at Drexel University College of Medicine and a senior medical advisor at the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates.

• Foreword, by Charles E. RosenbergPrefaceAcknowledgments1. Swollen with Dropsy2. Richard Bright's New Disease3. Sympathy and Flannel4. Enter the Microscope and the Laboratory5. Renal Shutdown, a Needle, and the End of Bright's Disease6. Inventing Chronic Dialysis7. Coupled to the Artificial Kidney8. The Gift of Life9. Progression and RenewalNotesIndex

From time to time, a compelling little book arrives on the medical scene... Peitzman's book will be useful to a wide range of readers, from students in the biomedical sciences to researchers to laypersons. Choice 2008 Peitzman takes his readers through both the science and the clinical and ethical issues of transplantation. As a nephrologist himself, he know the medicine from the inside, and has great empathy for the patients he has spent his professional career treating. His mix of science and suffering makes for a fine book, always readable and often moving. -- W. F. Bynum Medical History 2009 This is a general interest book that takes the reader into a highly specified field of discovery and treatment. -- Cathy Rees Southeastern Naturalist 2008 As a physician-historian, Peitzman composes his account of the transformations of kidney disease with an eye to both the present and the past, shifting frequently between his reconstruction of experience and understanding over the centuries with contemporary theory and therapies, often pointing out with a quip the ironies or frustrations of modern health care. -- Chris Feudtner Bulletin of the History of Medicine 2009 The foregrounding of the patient is not the only merit of this carefully crafted book. It also shows how other disciplines feed into medicine and medical innovation; medicine is not a scientifically isolated occupation. -- Anne Hardy Journal of Interdisciplinary History 2009

Steven J. Peitzman is a professor of medicine at Drexel University College of Medicine and a senior medical advisor at the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates.

• Foreword, by Charles E. RosenbergPrefaceAcknowledgments1. Swollen with Dropsy2. Richard Bright's New Disease3. Sympathy and Flannel4. Enter the Microscope and the Laboratory5. Renal Shutdown, a Needle, and the End of Bright's Disease6. Inventing Chronic Dialysis7. Coupled to the Artificial Kidney8. The Gift of Life9. Progression and RenewalNotesIndex

From time to time, a compelling little book arrives on the medical scene... Peitzman's book will be useful to a wide range of readers, from students in the biomedical sciences to researchers to laypersons. Choice 2008 Peitzman takes his readers through both the science and the clinical and ethical issues of transplantation. As a nephrologist himself, he know the medicine from the inside, and has great empathy for the patients he has spent his professional career treating. His mix of science and suffering makes for a fine book, always readable and often moving. -- W. F. Bynum Medical History 2009 This is a general interest book that takes the reader into a highly specified field of discovery and treatment. -- Cathy Rees Southeastern Naturalist 2008 As a physician-historian, Peitzman composes his account of the transformations of kidney disease with an eye to both the present and the past, shifting frequently between his reconstruction of experience and understanding over the centuries with contemporary theory and therapies, often pointing out with a quip the ironies or frustrations of modern health care. -- Chris Feudtner Bulletin of the History of Medicine 2009 The foregrounding of the patient is not the only merit of this carefully crafted book. It also shows how other disciplines feed into medicine and medical innovation; medicine is not a scientifically isolated occupation. -- Anne Hardy Journal of Interdisciplinary History 2009