Ticker : the quest to create an artificial heart / Mimi Swartz.
Ticker : the quest to create an artificial heart / Mimi Swartz.
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Author / Creator
Publisher
New York : Crown, [2018]
Call Numbers
G 2019/0024
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MMS ID
Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
317 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 8 unnumber pages
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Prologue: The tin man -- The wizard, 2015 -- How hard could it be? -- The making of a surgeon -- A tour of hell -- The war at home -- The purloined heart -- Experiments -- Barney who? -- The prisoner -- The wilderness -- Synchronicity -- The king of distraction -- Heartmates -- The Australian guy --...
Publication information
Publisher
New York : Crown, [2018]
Edition
First edition.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
[2018]
Subjects
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Scope and Contents
Summary
Swartz shows just how hard it can be to replicate nature's greatest creation-- a human heart. Part investigative journalism, part medical mystery, she covers fifty years of false starts, abysmal failures, and miraculous triumphs, as experienced by one of the world's foremost heart surgeons, O.H. "Bud" Frazier. At the Texas Heart Institute, the road...
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Ticker : the quest to create an artificial heart / Mimi Swartz.
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Author / Creator
Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Date Copyright
©2018
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Call Numbers
G 2019/0024
Record Identifier
74VKVjOaAg0d
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVjOaAg0d
Other Identifiers
ISBN
9780804138000 (hardback)
0804138001
DDC
617.4120592
MMS ID
991024210053002626
