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Artificial hearts : the allure and ambivalence of a controversial medical technology / Shelley McKellar.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, (c)2018.Description: 1 online resource : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781421423562
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • RD598 .A785 2018
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Contents:
Multiple approaches to building artificial hearts : technological optimism and political support in the early years -- Dispute and disappointment : heart transplantation and total artificial heart implant cases in the 1960s -- Technology and risk : nuclear-powered artificial hearts and medical device regulation -- Media spotlight : the Utah total artificial heart -- Clinical and commercial rewards : ventricular assist devices -- Securing a place : therapeutic clout and second-generation VADs -- Artificial hearts in the 21st century.
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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction RD598.35.78 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available on1017098689

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 8, 2018).

Includes bibliographies and index.

Fighting heart disease with machines and devices -- Multiple approaches to building artificial hearts : technological optimism and political support in the early years -- Dispute and disappointment : heart transplantation and total artificial heart implant cases in the 1960s -- Technology and risk : nuclear-powered artificial hearts and medical device regulation -- Media spotlight : the Utah total artificial heart -- Clinical and commercial rewards : ventricular assist devices -- Securing a place : therapeutic clout and second-generation VADs -- Artificial hearts in the 21st century.

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