Christiaan Barnard
Subtitle: one life
By: by Christiaan Barnard and Curtis Bill Pepper
Contributors: Pepper, Curtis Bill, joint author.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1970
Place of publication: New York; Toronto
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 402
Copyright date: 1969
Subjects: Barnard, Christiaan, 1922-; Heart -- Transplantation
Description: This book is the autobiography of the famed South African heart-transplanter. The novelistic (conversations recreated years after they took place), breathless prose disqualifies much of Barnard's story as good medical history, but its inherent drama will hold even the critical reader. - Annals of Internal Medicine.
Table of contents: title: The Great Karoo; title: Cape Town; title: Young doctor; title: The searching years; title: America; title: The return; title: The transplant