Artificial hearts : the allure and ambivalence of a controversial medical technology - McKellar, Shelley (Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018)
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
Includes bibliographical references and index
Keywords: Heart, Artificial -- United States -- History; Heart -- Surgery -- United States -- History; Print books