The Donor - Couverture souple

Barnard, Christiaan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140268944 ISBN 13 : 9780140268942

Editeur : Penguin, 1997

Synopsis

The work of Dr Rodney Barnes, internationally respected heart transplant surgeon, is hampered by a shortage of suitable donors but he faces the worst dilemma of his life when his lover is critically injured in an accident and, being declared brain dead, then becomes a potential donor. Barnes calls on the full resources of the hospital's research team in order to keep her alive. The plan put forward by the director of the research department, Dr Louis Kapisnky, a brilliant geneticist with a somewhat shadowy background, stuns the Ethics Committee but Barnes persuades them to accept it. What happens next could make history. Or unleash a horror that the outside world has still not seen.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Professor Christiaan Barnard performed the first human heart transplant in 1967 and the first double heart transplant seven years later. He is now retired and lives both in Cape Town and the Cape Province where he farms. He is finalising his next novel.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0140268944
• ISBN 13: 9780140268942
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 384
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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