Cardiac Cowboys

The Heroic Invention of Heart Surgery

Gerald Imber

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Post Hill Press
19 June 2024

History of medicine; Cardiovascular medicine

Cardiac Cowboys is the dramatic story of five deeply flawed geniuses who together—and in competition with each other—invented open-heart surgery against all conventional medical wisdom and saved millions of lives.

A decade after World War II, there was still no such thing as open-heart surgery, and yet half a million Americans were dying from heart disease every year. One in a hundred children would suffer and die from congenital heart disease as well, and doctors did little other than predict their deaths. After the first daring operation in 1954 and through the next three decades, five heroic surgeons braved the scorn of their peers, withstood fierce desperation, and faced possible death in order to devise procedures that would save overwhelming numbers of those doomed children and provide hope for a new life to all manner of heart-failing individuals. Devising and mastering heart transplants and bypass surgery, they invented artificial heart valves, the lifesaving pacemaker, and worked toward the holy grail of an artificial heart as their private and professional lives imploded. The story of the Cardiac Cowboys, their outsized personalities, and often self-destructive behavior is a saga more thrilling and exhilarating than fiction.

By: Gerald Imber
Imprint: Post Hill Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 429g
ISBN: 9798888452783
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 19 June 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Gerald Imber is an internationally renowned plastic surgeon. He is the author of numerous beauty books, including The Youth Corridor, Wendell Black, MD: A Novel, and the highly regarded biography Genius on the Edge: The Bizarre Double Life of Dr. William Stewart Halsted. Dr. Imber has spoken on the life of Halsted, the father of modern surgery, at numerous medical meetings throughout the country and is the acknowledged expert. Dr. Imber is an attending surgeon at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital, an assistant clinical professor of surgery at the Weill-Cornell Medical Center, and the director of a private clinic. He has been the subject of numerous articles and has made innumerable media appearances.

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Cardiac Cowboys

The Heroic Invention of Heart Surgery

Gerald Imber

$45

Hardback

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