9781403987303 (hardback)

1403987300 (hardback)

Science, technology, and medicine in modern history

Making the heart transplantable. The 'pump' : its disciplines, institutions and professionals ; 'Spare-part surgery' and human heart transplants ; Preparing doctors and the public

Communicating medicine in post-war Britain. Doctors and the control of medical communication ; Making medical news and the challenge of television ; Medical accountability

Creating the most famous operation in the world. Breaking news ; Louis Washkansky : the world's most famous patient ; Christiaan Barnard : South Africa's 'most valued ambassador'

'The most extraordinary programme ever shown on television' : a new medium for debating medicine. Negotiating arenas and methods of medical debate ; Tomorrow's world in the making : shaping medical debate ; Response to the 'medical circus'

Hospital-media relations in the first British heart transplant. Staging a press conference to manage a media event ; Continuing the story : using the press or being used? ; Divided communities

Managing medicine's image in the 'time of the heart transplants'. Public accountability

'Brain death' and access to medical decision-making ; Donor supply and trust in the medical profession ; A moratorium on heart transplants.

Heart > Transplantation > Great Britain > History.

Health in mass media > Great Britain.

Heart > Transplantation > history > Great Britain.

Mass media > History > Great Britain.