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Auteur(s) : McKellar, Shelley (1967-....)
Titre(s) : Artificial hearts [Texte imprimé] : the allure and ambivalence of a controversial medical technology / Shelley McKellar
Publication : Baltimore : Johns Hopkins university press, copyright 2018
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XII-350 p.-[8] p. de pl.) : ill. ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr.
Artificial hearts are seductive devices. Their promissory nature as a cure for heart
failure aligned neatly with the twentieth-century American medical community's view
of the body as an entity of replacement parts. In Artificial Hearts, Shelley McKellar
traces the controversial history of this imperfect technology beginning in the 1950s
and leading up to the present day. McKellar profiles generations of researchers and
devices as she traces the heart's development and clinical use. She situates the events
of Dr. Michael DeBakey and Dr. Denton Cooley's professional fall-out after the first
artificial heart implant case in 1969, as well as the 1982-83 Jarvik-7 heart implant
case of Barney Clark, within a larger historical trajectory. She explores how some
individuals-like former US Vice President Dick Cheney-affected the public profile
of this technology by choosing to be implanted with artificial hearts. Finally, she
explains the varied physical experiences, both negative and positive, of numerous
artificial heart recipients. McKellar argues that desirability-rather than the feasibility
or practicality of artificial hearts-drove the invention of the device. Technical
challenges and unsettling clinical experiences produced an ambivalence toward its
continued development by many researchers, clinicians, politicians, bioethicists,
and the public. But the potential and promise of the artificial heart offset this
ambivalence, influencing how success was characterized and by whom
Sujet(s) : Coeurs artificiels -- États-Unis -- Histoire
Coeur -- Chirurgie -- États-Unis -- Histoire
Indice(s) Dewey :
617.412 0592 (23e éd.) = Coeur - Greffe de tissus et d'organes, implantations d'organes artificiels
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781421423555. - ISBN 1421423553 (rel.). - ISBN 9781421423562. - ISBN 1421423561
(eBook)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb455246540
Notice n° :
FRBNF45524654
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction : Fighting heart disease with machines and devices ; Multiple approaches
to building artificial hearts : technological optimism and political support in the
early years ; Dispute and disappointment : heart transplantation and total artificial
heart implant cases in the 1960s ; Technology and risk : nuclear-powered artificial
hearts and medical device regulation ; Media spotlight : the Utah total artificial
heart and the charge of bioethics ; Clinical and commercial rewards : ventricular
assist devices ; Securing a place : therapeutic clout and second-generation VADs
; Artificial hearts in the twenty-first century.
