Every Second Counts: The Extraordinary Race to Transplant the First Human Heart - Brossura

McRae, Donald

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1416510958 ISBN 13: 9781416510956

Casa editrice: Simon & Schuster, 2007

Riassunto

The dramatic race to transplant the first human heart spanned two years, three continents and five cities against a backdrop of searing tension, scientific brilliance, ethical controversy, racial strife and emotional turmoil. It culminated in a terrifying moment in the early hours of 3 December 1967 when, in a cramped operating theatre in a Cape Town hospital, Professor Chris Barnard stared into an empty cavity from which he had just removed a heart. He knew that he had only minutes left to make history and save the life of a 55-year-old man by filling the gaping hole in his chest with a heart which had just been beating inside a 25-year-old woman. EVERY SECOND COUNTS is the story of this gripping race to conquer the greatest of medical challenges. The kind of true story that would be dismissed as far-fetched if presented as fiction, it combines an utterly compelling portrait of cutting-edge science with raw human drama, and shows how the course of medicine itself was changed for ever.

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L'autore:

Donald McRae is the award-winning author of eight books. He is one of only two authors to have won the prestigious William Hill award twice, for Dark Trade and In Black & White. As a journalist he has twice won Sports Interviewer of the Year - as well as winning Sports Feature Writer of the Year. His next book will be published by Simon & Schuster in 2015. He lives in Hertfordshire.

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'Gripping' Scotland on Sunday
In a race where every second that passes could literally mean the difference between life and death, winning is everything . . .
Based on four years' research and the intimate recollections of the surviving participants, Every Second Counts is the riveting reconstruction of the race to pull off one of the greatest achievements of the twentieth century: the transfer of a living human heart from one person to another.
It was a race pursued by four very different men on two different continents, and after eight years of daringly, crazily innovative research it came down to a breathless attempt to find the right donor and the right recipient at the right time. A few feverish days, hours and even minutes in late 1967 revealed the winner, and sparked a media frenzy that made him a household name around the world. Yet Christiaan Barnard became a history-maker as much through good luck and a fateful twist of timing as skill or talent.
The kind of true story that would be dismissed as far-fetched if presented as fiction, Every Second Counts combines an utterly compelling - and at times shocking - portrait of cutting-edge science with raw human drama, and shows how the course of medicine itself was changed for ever.
'[A] fascinating account . . . Impressive' Washington Post
'McRae's precision reporting never rests . . . He has spoken to everyone, and recorded everything' Sunday Times
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ISBN-10: 1416510958

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• Editore: Simon & Schuster
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1416510958
• ISBN 13: 9781416510956
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 368