Hearts exposed = transplants and the...
Nathoo, Ayesha.

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    Title/Author: Hearts exposed/ AyeshaNathoo.
    Reminder of title: transplants and the media in 1960s Britain /
    Author: Nathoo, Ayesha.
    Published: Basingstoke ;Palgrave Macmillan, : 2009.,
    Description: 1 online resource (xv, 262 p.) :ill.
    Notes: Description based on print version record.
    [NT 15003449]: 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.
    Subject: Health in mass media. -
    Online resource: http://link.springer.com/10.1057/9780230234703access to fulltext (Palgrave)
    ISBN: 0230234704 (electronic bk.)
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