Close to the Sun by Stuart Jamieson

Close to the Sun by Stuart Jamieson

Author:Stuart Jamieson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: RosettaBooks
Published: 2019-03-12T04:00:00+00:00


Ralphie. The first living thing to have survived a year after a heart transplant. 1964.

Photograph courtesy of Dr. Shumway

Some of Shumway’s research would have troubled animal rights groups and medical ethicists had word got around. In 1966, Dick Lower transplanted a heart from a human cadaver into a chimpanzee. The heart functioned for a few hours, at which point Lower euthanized the chimp and terminated the experiment. Nothing was said about this, but it was the first heart transplant using a human donor.



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