Download or read book Christiaan Barnard written by David Cooper and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2017-12-17 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Celebrity Surgeon written by Chris Logan and published by Jonathan Ball Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Heartbreaker written by James-Brent Styan and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-04 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Every Second Counts written by Donald McRae and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic race to transplant the first human heart spanned two years, three continents and five cities against a backdrop of searing tension, scientific brilliance, ethical controversy, racial strife and emotional turmoil. It culminated in a terrifying moment in the early hours of 3 December 1967 when, in a cramped operating theatre in a Cape Town hospital, Professor Chris Barnard stared into an empty cavity from which he had just removed a heart. He knew that he had only minutes left to make history and save the life of a 55-year-old man by filling the gaping hole in his chest with a heart which had just been beating inside a 25-year-old woman. Every Second Countsis the story of this gripping race to conquer the greatest of medical challenges. It also reveals the truth about the man at the centre of it all, whose turbulent life story was just as gripping. The kind of true story that would be dismissed as far-fetched if presented as fiction, it combines an utterly compelling portrait of cutting-edge science with raw human drama, and shows how the course of medicine itself was changed for ever.
Download or read book The Donor written by Christiaan Barnard and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 50 Ways to a Healthy Heart written by Christiaan Barnard and published by Thorsons Publishers. This book was released on 2001-07 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an extremely entertaining and life-saving book from one of the most famous doctors of our time. Full of lively gems, this practical book provides all the information you need to prevent heart disease. The author offers clear and thoroughly up-to-date information on every aspect of your lifestyle and how it relates to heart health.He combines personal anecdotes -- from friend Peter Sellers' heart crisis to the company which offered Barnard $50,000 for the operating gloves he had unthinkingly thrown away after conducting his first heart transplant.Christiaan Barnard analyzes every key area of our lives, including: -- Avoiding dieting-- Eating the right fats-- Drinking red wine-- Laughing more often-- Spending more time with friends-- Enjoying regular sex
Download or read book The Second Life written by Christiaan Barnard and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dr Christiaan N Barnard the Man with the Golden Hands written by L. Edmond Leipold and published by T. S. Denison. This book was released on 1971 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the first surgeon to perform a human heart transplant successfully.
Download or read book Bundu written by Chris Barnard and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2011-05-27 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a place near Mozambique where no one knows the boundary, drought is changing everything. Tens, then hundreds of people seek refuge in a forgotten outpost where a clinic is run by lonely souls of uncertain training, nuns staunchly determined to serve. But the inundation soon becomes too much for them, and there is no help from outside. Within the small community of outcasts a plan takes shape that is as outrageous as it is inspired. The illegal adventure that follows is a humanitarian act of heroic proportions, yet unsung in the greater world. And in its wake unanswered questions remain: what is it that lies just beyond our reach; why can we not take the final step towards each other? Bundu is about the people and the animals of Africa at the height of their beauty and the depth of their despair. It is a love story and a meditation on the mystery of our powers and the limitations that we share with our brothers, the animals.
Download or read book Fat Fame and Life with Father written by Deirdre Barnard and published by Juta and Company Ltd. This book was released on 2003 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of Deirdre Barnard - champion water-skier, daughter of pioneering heart surgeon Chris Barnard, woman in her own right. In this wise and funny book, Deirdre Barnard stands up and tells it like it is - about life in the Barnard family as they coped with the successes and losses that befell them, about the heartless intrusions into privacy that were the flip side of fame, about bereavement and true friendship and the sustaining power of family. Deirdre Barnard is an entertaining and courageously forthright storyteller with a wicked wit. This is a moving account of her sometimes painful but ultimately uplifting personal journey; its compassion and humour will touch us all.
Download or read book Defining Moments written by Marius Barnard and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2011-05-27 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marius Barnard is best known as a member of the pioneering medical team that performed the world’s first human heart transplant at Groote Schuur Hospital in 1967, with his brother Chris. But his achievements extended into other spheres. He was an active anti-apartheid campaigner and MP for the Progressive Federal Party, he worked to improve cardiac surgery standards behind the Iron Curtain and globally, and he played a leading role in the creation of critical illness insurance - his invention, and one that has directly benefited the sick around the world. From humble beginnings as the son of missionary parents in the dusty Karoo town of Beaufort West to his position as one of the world’s leading cardiac surgeons, Marius Barnard’s story is a fascinating and remarkable chronicle of personal determination and courage. It is one of few first-hand accounts of the inaugural human heart transplant and its far-reaching repercussions, both in the world of medicine and in the private lives of its pioneers. In this sincere and deeply personal memoir, Barnard speaks frankly about his relationships with his brother, his colleagues and his adversaries, and describes with humility his fourteen-year struggle with cancer. With candour, authenticity and charm, Defining Moments presents the formidable challenges and spellbinding successes in the life of this international medical icon.
Download or read book Christiaan Barnard One Life written by Christiaan Barnard and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiography of the South African surgeon, the first to perform successfully human heart transplanting.
Download or read book Christiaan Barnard and the Story of the First Successful Heart Transplant written by John Bankston and published by Mitchell Lane Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the surgeon who in 1967 became the first to successfully transplant a donor heart into another human being.
Download or read book Spare Parts written by Paul Craddock and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Compelling' Christopher Hart, The Sunday Times 'A fascinating book' Daily Mail _______________________________________________________________ We think of transplant surgery as one of the medical wonders of the modern world -- but it's a lot older than you think. As ancient as the pyramids, its history is even more surprising. In Spare Parts, cultural historian Paul Craddock takes us on a fascinating journey and unearths incredible untold stories, from Indian surgeons regrafting lost noses in the sixth century BC, to the seventeenth century architect who helped pioneer blood transfusions, to the French seamstress whose needlework paved the way for kidney transplants in the early 1900s. Expertly weaving together philosophy, science and cultural history, Spare Parts explores how transplant surgery has constantly tested the boundaries between human, animal and machine. It shows us that the history -- and future -- of transplant surgery is tied up with questions not only about who we are, but also what we are, and what we might become. _______________________________________________________________ 'By turns delightful and disturbing . . . A thoroughly engrossing read that I couldn't put down' LINDSEY FITZHARRIS, author of The Facemaker and The Butchering Art 'Spare Parts is a fascinating read filled with adventure, delight and surprise' RAHUL JANDIAL, surgeon and author of Life on a Knife's Edge 'This is a joyful romp through a fascinating slice of medical history' WENDY MOORE, author of The Knife Man
Download or read book The Organ Thieves written by Chip Jones and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks meets Get Out in this “startling…powerful” (Kirkus Reviews) investigation of racial inequality at the core of the heart transplant race. In 1968, Bruce Tucker, a black man, went into Virginia’s top research hospital with a head injury, only to have his heart taken out of his body and put into the chest of a white businessman. Now, in The Organ Thieves, Pulitzer Prize–nominated journalist Chip Jones exposes the horrifying inequality surrounding Tucker’s death and how he was used as a human guinea pig without his family’s permission or knowledge. The circumstances surrounding his death reflect the long legacy of mistreating African Americans that began more than a century before with cadaver harvesting and worse. It culminated in efforts to win the heart transplant race in the late 1960s. Featuring years of research and fresh reporting, along with a foreword from social justice activist Ben Jealous, “this powerful book weaves together a medical mystery, a legal drama, and a sweeping history, its characters confronting unprecedented issues of life and death under the shadows of centuries of racial injustice” (Edward L. Ayers, author of The Promise of the New South).
Download or read book Organ And Tissue Donation An Evidence Base For Practice written by Sque, Magaret R. G. and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ground-breaking book is a valuable addition to the end-of-life, palliative and bereavement care literature
Download or read book Animal Behaviour written by Christopher J. Barnard and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2004 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text provides an introduction to the study of behaviour, from its basis in the animal's anatomy and physiology to its adaptive value in the environment. Chris Barnard provides comprehensive coverage of the four major levels of enquiry - mechanism, development, function and evolution.
