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The Nuts and Bolts of Life: Willem Kolff and the Invention of the Kidney Machine
Paul Heiney
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
240 pages, 18 b&w illustrations
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | September 11, 2003 |
| ISBN13 | 9780750928960 |
| Publishers | The History Press Ltd |
| Pages | 240 |
| Dimensions | 131 × 194 × 16 mm · 200 g |
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