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Artificial hearts : the allure and ambivalence of a controversial medical technology /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McKellar, Shelley (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2018]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • Clinical and commercial rewards : ventricular assist devices
  • Securing a place : therapeutic clout and second-generation VADs
  • Artificial hearts in the 21st century.