Demichov
“Vladimir feels he has an extra card in the deck, that his existence is rigged, that all he has to do to make it worth living is apply his own will.” Who is Vladimir Demikhov? And why dedicate a book to him? Good, excellent questions. But the most appropriate would be: why read it? Well, indeed. “Vladimir Petrovich Demikhov (1916-1998) – Soviet surgeon and researcher: one of the most renowned pioneers of organ transplantation; commonly...