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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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