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Pioneering surgeon Dr. Denton Cooley recalls his extraordinary career and achievements, which include performing the first successful heart transplant in the United States and the first clinical implantation of a totally artificial heart in a human being.

Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: My Roots
Chapter 2: Boyhood Friends and Activities
Chapter 3: “This, My Friend, is the UT”
Chapter 4: Becoming a Doctor
Chapter 5: The Dawn of Heart Surgery
Chapter 6: Army Doctor
Chapter 7: Residency at Hopkins
Chapter 8: A Year at the Brompton
Chapter 9: Pioneering Cardiovascular Surgery
Chapter 10: Opening up the Heart
Chapter 11: An Institute for the Heart
Chapter 12: Transplanting Hearts
Chapter 13: The Total Artificial Heart
Chapter 14: The “Cooley Hilton” and Beyond
Chapter 15: On Being a Surgeon
Chapter 16: Private Life
Chapter 17: Reconciliation with Mike
Summing Up
Appendix A: Glossary
Appendix B: Personal Contributions to Cardiovascular Surgery
Appendix C: Surgical Inventions and Products
Appendix D: Selected Publications
Appendix E: Denton A. Cooley Cardiovascular Surgical Society
Appendix F: Curriculum Vitae
Index

One Hundred Thousand Hearts

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      Publisher Briscoe Center for American History
      Published 6 April 2021
      ISBN-13 9780999731871
      978-0999731871
      ISBN-10 0999731874
      Also in:
      Biography Memoirs

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Pioneering surgeon Dr. Denton Cooley recalls his extraordinary career and achievements, which include performing the first successful heart transplant in the United States and the first clinical implantation of a totally artificial heart in a human being.

      Table of Contents
      Foreword
      Preface
      Introduction
      Chapter 1: My Roots
      Chapter 2: Boyhood Friends and Activities
      Chapter 3: “This, My Friend, is the UT”
      Chapter 4: Becoming a Doctor
      Chapter 5: The Dawn of Heart Surgery
      Chapter 6: Army Doctor
      Chapter 7: Residency at Hopkins
      Chapter 8: A Year at the Brompton
      Chapter 9: Pioneering Cardiovascular Surgery
      Chapter 10: Opening up the Heart
      Chapter 11: An Institute for the Heart
      Chapter 12: Transplanting Hearts
      Chapter 13: The Total Artificial Heart
      Chapter 14: The “Cooley Hilton” and Beyond
      Chapter 15: On Being a Surgeon
      Chapter 16: Private Life
      Chapter 17: Reconciliation with Mike
      Summing Up
      Appendix A: Glossary
      Appendix B: Personal Contributions to Cardiovascular Surgery
      Appendix C: Surgical Inventions and Products
      Appendix D: Selected Publications
      Appendix E: Denton A. Cooley Cardiovascular Surgical Society
      Appendix F: Curriculum Vitae
      Index

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