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By A. Nathoo

This e-book examines the connection among medication and the media in Nineteen Sixties Britain, whilst the 1st wave of center transplants have been as a lot media as scientific occasions and marked a decisive interval in post-war background. Public belief of their medical professionals was once considerably undermined, and medication was once held publicly to account as by no means earlier than.

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84 Surgery, more than any other branch of medicine, required practitioners to travel to various centres, learning skills from one another and acquiring tacit knowledge. As the Guy’s surgeon, Hedley Atkins, wrote in 1965, surgical ‘travelling clubs and socio-surgical groups have no counterpart amongst the medical fraternity’. He suggested that this was to some extent due to the ‘gregarious nature of surgeons as people’ but also because surgeons needed to see other surgeons at work so that the ‘finer points of technique’ could be appreciated, reproduced and improved.

Under this Act, body parts could be removed as long as there was no reason to believe that the deceased had expressed an objection and that the ‘surviving spouse or any surviving relative’ did not object. Making the Heart Transplantable 19 In 1963, researchers working on kidney transplantation met in Washington, DC, to compare experiences and results. 70 Heart transplantation had a number of different implications and complications from kidney transplants, not least because it is not a ‘paired’ organ like the kidney.

Heart disease was a killer of both men and women and could affect people of all ages. In June 1964, The Times headlined ‘Heart ailments as major killer. S. and Britain’. 139 Books and pamphlets available to the public also strengthened this fear. ’ If heart transplantation was seen as a remedy for, and part of the fight against, this number one killer disease, it would have a greater chance of being accepted by a potentially apprehensive public. 1 A British Heart Foundation advert from The Times (6 August 1963, p.

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