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

McRae, Donald

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1471135349 ISBN 13 : 9781471135347

Editeur : Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2014

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

'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
¥7.99
Pocket Books
NON-FICTION/HISTORY
ISBN-10: 1416510958

Revue de presse :

'In this thrilling history of heart transplantation, Donald McRae shows how exciting medical history can be . . . Few of the heart transplant pioneers were saints (Lillehei was guilty of tax evasion) but in this gripping book, McRae shows how their flaws also drove their remarkable advances' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 9/7
'In a profession that rewards front, Barnard's cool annexation of this famous first is still a stand-out. His subsequent antics - a couple of 19-year-old wives, a late obsession with anti-ageing treatments that saw him stripped of his membership of the American College of Surgeons - did little for his reputation. McRae has spoken to everyone, and recorded everything, for which he deserves credit. He doesn't judge; but then he doesn't need to. Whatever the backstory, Barnard will always be first' - SUNDAY TIMES 20/8
‘It’s a thrilling tale and it’s told in detail here’
Sunday Telegraph 19/8

‘McRae paints not only a vivid portrait of the driven and ambitious South African [Dr Christiaan Barnard] but also adeptly explains the medical background to Barnard’s triumph’
Sunday Times 2/9

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1471135349
• ISBN 13: 9781471135347
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 368