Artificial Heart Program Conference

Download or read book Artificial Heart Program Conference; National Heart Institute, Artificial Heart Program... Proceedings, Washington, D.C., June 9-13, 1969 written by National Heart Institute (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Artificial Heart Program Conference written by Ruth Johnsson Hegyeli and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Artificial Heart written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1991-02-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A significant medical event is expected in 1992: the first human use of a fully implantable, long-term cardiac assist device. This timely volume reviews the artificial heart program-and in particular, the National Institutes of Health's major investment-raising important questions. The volume includes: Consideration of the artificial heart versus heart transplantation and other approaches to treating end-stage heart disease, keeping in mind the different outcomes and costs of these treatments. A look at human issues, including the number of people who may require the artificial heart, patient quality of life, and other ethical and societal questions. Examination of how this technology's use can be targeted most appropriately. Attention to achieving access to this technology for all those who can benefit from it. The committee also offers three mechanisms to aid in allocating research and development funds.

Download or read book Status of the Artificial Heart Program written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Artificial Heart Program of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute written by Council on Health Care Technology (Institute of Medicine). Committee to Plan for a Study to Evaluate the Artificial Heart Program of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and published by National Academies. This book was released on 1989 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Proceedings. [Sponsored by The] National Heart Institute, Artificial Heart Program. Edited by Ruth Johnsson Hegyeli written by Ruth Johnsson Hegyeli and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Artificial Hearts written by Shelley McKellar and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive history of the development of artificial hearts in the United States. 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. Packed with larger-than-life characters—from dedicated and ardent scientists to feuding Texas surgeons and brave patients—this book is a fascinating case study that speaks to questions of expectations, limitations, and uncertainty in a high-technology medical world.