Christiaan Barnard - One Life

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Who is CHRISTIAAN BARNARD, and how will his own One Life be remembered when the first human heart transplant becomes a footnote to medical history? With rare candor and insight, the surgeon—and the man—speaks for himself. Direct and unsparing, he reveals his agonizing personal decisions, conflicts, mistakes, and hopes in this remarkable book that intimately exposes one of the most articulate, ingenious, and controversial figures in medicine today.
Barnard recalls the years of hardship, experiment, and driving ambition that brought him to the top of his profession and to ultimate self-confrontation: his childhood in South Africa and the indelible influence of his devout parents; the lean, rigorous student years; his stormy marriage; and his first halting search for identity in a smalltown general practice. Then comes the critical turning point: the opportunity to study in America with the world's foremost pioneers in open heart surgery.
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Who is CHRISTIAAN BARNARD, and how will his own One Life be remembered when the first human heart transplant becomes a footnote to medical history? With rare candor and insight, the surgeon—and the man—speaks for himself. Direct and unsparing, he reveals his agonizing personal decisions, conflicts, mistakes, and hopes in this remarkable book that intimately exposes one of the most articulate, ingenious, and controversial figures in medicine today.
Barnard recalls the years of hardship, experiment, and driving ambition that brought him to the top of his profession and to ultimate self-confrontation: his childhood in South Africa and the indelible influence of his devout parents; the lean, rigorous student years; his stormy marriage; and his first halting search for identity in a smalltown general practice. Then comes the critical turning point: the opportunity to study in America with the world's foremost pioneers in open heart surgery.
It was at this time that he began to contribute his own innovations to this field and to internal medicine. In professional detail Barnard describes his surgical career, its triumph and tragedy, from the early animal experiments to dramatic breakthrough in the treatment of fatal childhood diseases of the brain, intestine, and heart. He recounts the successful human kidney transplant which preceded the first human heart transplant on Louis Washkansky in 1967. And finally, the complete story of that momentous operation itself, and of the remarkable man who was granted a second life with a young girl's heart.
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One Life is the totally fascinating personal and professional quest of a medical pioneer whose dedication often resembled obsession, whose dreams were always greater than his defeats. For above all other things Christiaan Barnard chose life, and the unique moral and practical responsibility of the physician. His compelling autobiography eloquently testifies that this responsibility was not misplaced.
PHOTO OF AUTHORS BY SCHALEH
CURTIS BILL PEPPER lives in Rome, where for many years he was head of the Newsweek bureau. His first book. The Pope's Backyard, concerned the Vatican. With the modern sculptor, Giacomo Manzii, he wrote An Artist and the Pope, the story of Manzu's great friendship with Pope John. He worked on One Life with Dr. Barnard for over a year and a half.
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