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  • Paperback: 208 pages
  • Publisher: Sutton Publishing Ltd; New edition edition (11 Sep 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0750928964
  • ISBN-13: 978-0750928960
  • Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 12.9 x 1.6 cm
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Paul Heiney describes here how one man - defiant, ingenious and stubborn - worked under impossible conditions in a country under the merciless occupation of Nazism to solve the problem of kidney failure and to change the course of human history. That man was Willem Kolff, aged 88 at the time of this book's publication. Tormented by the unnecessary deaths from kidney failure, Kolff determined to use mechanical ingenuity to purify blood. Working with sausage skins and an improbable collection of parts scavenged from factories under the nose of the German occupying forces, he completed the first kidney machine in 1944. It was a milestone in medical history: it is estimated that as many as half a million people in the world today owe their lives to this single invention. Kolff continued his career with pioneering work on the artificial heart. This book, written with Dr Kolff's closest co-operation and family records, celebrates that central story of courage and obsession, and its journey from the old, war-torn world to the new. It explains the science in accessible terms, and explores some of the human stories which developed along the way: the lives prolonged, new chances given to patients as the age of transplantation dawned, and the relationship between medical scientists and the army of technicians who make possible that strangest of 20th-century treatments - the circulation and purifying of the blood outside the human body.

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Paul Heiney is a well-known writer, broadcaster and journalist. His wide-ranging television credits include That's Life, Radio 1's Newsbeat, Radio 4's Today programme and continues to write for the Times. He is the author of several books including Pulling Punches (Methuen 1990), Home Farm (Dorling Kindersley, 1998), and two novels.
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5.0 out of 5 stars a brilliant 20th century inventor, 28 Mar 2004
In THE NUTS AND BOLTS OF LIFE Paul Heiney introduces us to a lively 90-something gentleman gleefully showing off something he invented -- a folding wooden bench. When Paul also learns that this spry fellow was the inventor of the first successful kidney dialysis machine back in the days before the Nazi occupation of Holland, as well as a member of the American team which created the first artificial heart, he is moved to write the biography of Willem "Pim" Kolff.

Nowadays, kidney dialysis machines are so much a part of the medical profession, it is difficult to grasp what life had been like before their invention for people with kidney failure -- a sentence of a horrible, complicated death. As Paul Heiney writes in his Introduction about his first visit to the Kidney Unit in a British hospital: "Like the organs themselves, which lurk around the back of the body, inconspicuously keeping us alive, kidney units are often at the rear of hospitals, taken for granted and expected to get on with their routine task, basking in little glory." (Page 2)

A conversational biography, well-researched, rich in scientific details & the dramatic life & times of this venerable inventor.

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