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100 1  Swartz, Mimi,|eauthor. 
245 10 Ticker :|bthe quest to create an artificial heart /|cMimi 
       Swartz. 
250    First edition 
264  1 New York :|bCrown, an imprint of the Crown Publishing 
       Group,|c[2018] 
264  4 |c©2018 
300    317 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :|billustrations 
       (chiefly color) ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-306) and 
       index. 
505 0  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 -- Matilda -- The occupation -- The 
       power source -- The dream of eternal life. 
520    "If America could send a man to the moon, why couldn't its
       best surgeons build an artificial heart? In Ticker, Texas 
       Monthly executive editor and two-time National Magazine 
       Award winner Mimi Swartz shows just how hard it can be to 
       replicate nature's greatest creation. Part investigative 
       journalism, part medical mystery, Ticker is a dazzling 
       story of modern innovation, recounting 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. His journey takes him from a
       small town in west Texas to one of the country's most 
       prestigious medical institutions, the Texas Heart 
       Institute. The roadblocks to success--medical setbacks, 
       technological shortcomings, government regulations--are 
       immense. But Bud and his associates find inspiration in 
       the unlikeliest of places. A field beside the Nile 
       irrigated with an ancient pump. A hardware store in 
       Brisbane, Australia. A seedy bar on the wrong side of 
       Houston. Ticker is also a riveting history of heart 
       surgery, introducing readers to Michael DeBakey and Denton
       Cooley, whose feud dominated its dramatic beginnings. 
       Christiaan Barnard, who changed the world by performing 
       the first heart transplant. Robert Jarvik, whose 
       artificial heart made patient Barney Clark a worldwide 
       symbol of the promise of technology and the perils of 
       experimentation run amuck. Bud's quixotic quest attracts a
       team of equally brilliant and adventurous supporting 
       players. Billy Cohn, a heart surgeon and inventor who 
       can't resist the call of magic. The driven Daniel Timms, 
       an Australian biomedical engineer with a radical new idea.
       And, as government money dries up, the unlikeliest of 
       backers, Houston's furniture king, Mattress Mack. In a 
       sweeping narrative of one man's obsession, Ticker takes us
       on an unforgettable journey into the power and mystery of 
       the human heart."--Dust jacket. 
600 10 Frazier, O. Howard. 
600 10 Cohn, Billy. 
600 12 Frazier, O. Howard. 
600 12 Cohn, Billy. 
650  0 Heart, Artificial. 
650  0 Surgeons|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 Heart|xSurgery|xHistory. 
650  1 Heart, Artificial. 
650  7 Heart, Artificial.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00953756 
650  7 Heart|xSurgery.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00953666 
650  7 Surgeons.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01139336 
650  7 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Medical (incl. Patients)
       |2bisacsh 
650  7 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology.|2bisacsh
650  7 MEDICAL / History.|2bisacsh 
650 12 Heart, Artificial. 
651  2 United States. 
650 22 Surgeons. 
651  7 United States.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204155 
655  7 Biographies.|2lcgft 
655  7 Biography.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01423686 
655  7 History.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411628 
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