At the Heart of Healing: Groote Schuur Hospital, 1938–2008

Examining Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa—world famous as the site of the world's first heart transplant operation in 1967—this rich and probing history offers a new kind of hospital record. Drawing on abundant documentary and visual sources and a wide variety of individual memories, a team of historians weaves personal stories into a skillful analysis of the hospital's clinical and institutional culture.

Very good condition, hardcover, inscribed