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3. Spare Parts
A Neo-Nazi obsessed with the perfect stitch, organs from prisoners, patients bombarded with radiation, chance discoveries involving bottles of good quality olive oil… This is the story of transplant surgery. At first, transplant surgery seemed a craze, a one–off experiment. But pursuing fame, prestige and world wide acclaim, surgeons took increasingly extraordinary risks. What lay ahead of them was a battle to tame the world’s most sophisticated fighting machine – the immune system.