Artificial hearts : the allure and ambivalence of a controversial medical technology / Shelley McKellar
Publisher: Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2018]Description: xii, 350 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781421423555
- RD598.35.A78 M35 2018
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction : Fighting heart disease with machines and devices -- Multiple approaches to building artificial hearts : technological optimism and political support in the early years -- Dispute and disappointment : heart transplantation and total artificial heart implant cases in the 1960s -- Technology and risk : nuclear-powered artificial hearts and medical device regulation -- Media spotlight : the Utah total artificial heart and the charge of bioethics -- Clinical and commercial rewards : ventricular assist devices -- Securing a place : therapeutic clout and second-generation VADs -- Artificial hearts in the twenty-first century