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9781564742766

Dream of the Heart : The Life of John H. Gibbon, Jr. M. D.: Father of the Heart-Lung Machine

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  • ISBN13:

    9781564742766

  • ISBN10:

    1564742768

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1999-03-01
  • Publisher: Scb Distributors
  • Purchase Benefits
List Price: $24.95

Table of Contents

Foreword 9(2)
Preface 11(4)
Acknowledgements 15(4)
A Day in September
19(4)
1903
23(10)
The Early Years
33(9)
Mother Gibbon
42(8)
College
50(8)
Medical School
58(4)
The Elder Gibbon
62(9)
The Birth of an Idea
71(8)
Maly
79(8)
Ancestors
87(14)
The Philadelphia Years
101(3)
A 1930 Update of Oxygenators and Cardiac Surgery
104(18)
The Search Begins
122(7)
World War II
129(19)
Military and Civilian Medicine
148(5)
The Second Phase
153(7)
Heart Surgery at the Time
160(15)
The Day Arrives
175(7)
After the Operation
182(9)
Heart-Lung Machines Afterward
191(8)
Home and the Children
199(6)
The Man
205(19)
Jack's Military Heritage
224(29)
Addresses
253(9)
Events in Jack's Honor
262(15)
The Last Days
277(4)
Curriculum Vitae 281(18)
Bibliography 299

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