A disease and its device : the introduction of dialysis for acute renal failure, with particular reference to Leeds, UK, c.1945-c.2000
Dialysis was the first instance of the possibility of replacement of organ function by a machine. Although now an established medical activity, it was only slowly adopted. The early machines were laboriously difficult in practice and appeared to have no clear indication for use. There was, however,...
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University of Manchester
2013
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