Hearts exposed
Subtitle: transplants and the media in 1960s Britain
By: Ayesha Nathoo.
Series: Science, technology, and medicine in modern history
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9781403987303
Subjects: Heart -- Transplantation -- Great Britain -- History; Health in mass media -- Great Britain; Heart Transplantation -- history -- Great Britain; History, 20th Century -- Great Britain; Mass Media -- history -- Great Britain
Description: This text examines the relationship between medicine and the media in 1960s Britain, when the first wave of heart transplants were as much media as medical events and marked a decisive period in post-war history.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Making the heart transplantable; title: The "pump" : its disciplines, institutions, and professionals; title: "Spare-part surgery" and human heart transplants; title: Preparing doctors and the public; title: Communicating medicine in post-war Britain; title: Doctors and the control of medical communication; title: Making medical news and the challenge of television; title: Medical accountability; title: Creating the most famous operation in the world; title: Breaking news; title: Louis Washkansky : the world's most famous patient; title: Christiaan Barnard : South Africa's "most valued ambassador"; title: "The most extraordinary programme ever shown on television" : a new medium for debating medicine; title: Negotiating arenas and methods of medical debate; title: Tomorrow's world in the making : shaping medical debate; title: Response to the "medical circus"; title: Hospital-media relations in the first British heart transplant; title: Staging a press conference to manage a media event; title: Continuing the story : using the press or being used; title: Divided communities; title: Managing medicine's image in the time of the heart transplants; title: Public accountability; title: "Brain death" and access to medical decision-making; title: Donor supply and trust in the medical profession; title: A moratorium on heart transplants.