The Heart of the Matter
How Papworth Hospital transformed modern heart and lung care
Papworth Hospital in Cambridgeshire, founded in 1916 to tackle the great killer disease of tuberculosis, is famous for carrying out the UK's first heart transplant operation in 1979. It followed this up not only with many other heart transplants but also with the UK's first heart and lung operation in 1984 and the world's first heart, lung and liver transplant in 1986.With unique access to Papworth's archives, historian Peter Pugh here tells the story of this ground-breaking hospital for the first time. Alongside the background to that first UK heart transplant - and the ethical controversies that surrounded it - Pugh explores the opposition…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-84831-943-1
- EAN: 9781848319431
- Produktnummer: 19703427
- Verlag: Icon Books Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 304 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 15'988 KB
Über den Autor
Peter Pugh was educated at Oundle and Cambridge, where he read History. He has written more than 50 official histories, including The Magic of a Name, a three-volume history of Rolls-Royce. He lives in Cambridge and Norfolk.
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