|
|
Product Description
In this new biography of Chris Barnard we not only learn about the life of South Africa’s most famous surgeon, from his Beaufort West childhood through his studies locally and abroad to his prominent marriages – and divorces – but James Styan also examines the impact of the historic heart transplant on Barnard’s personal life and South African society at large, where apartheid legislation often made the difficulties of medicine even more convoluted. The role of black medical staff like Hamilton Naki is explored, as is the intense rivalry that arose between other famous heart surgeons and Barnard. How did Barnard manage to beat them all in this race of life and death? How much did his famous charisma have to do with it all? And in the light of his later years, his subsequent successes and considerable failures, what is Barnard’s legacy today? Styan covers it all in this fascinating new account of a real heartbreaker.
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
- Christiaan Barnard: The Surgeon Who Dared
- King of Hearts: The True Story of the Maverick Who Pioneered Open Heart Surgery
- When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon
- Hearts: Of Surgeons and Transplants, Miracles and Disasters Along the Cardiac Frontier
- Ticker: The Quest to Create an Artificial Heart
- The Heart Healers: The Misfits, Mavericks, and Rebels Who Created the Greatest Medical Breakthrough of Our Lives
- Heart: A History
*If this is not the "Heartbreaker: Christiaan Barnard and the first heart transplant" product you were looking for, you can check the other results by clicking this link
.
Details were last updated on May 18, 2025 11:42 +08.
