Word: transplant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second elbowing put Tommy into the University Hospital in Syracuse, where surgeons trying to sew up his lacerated liver discovered that it was cancerous. Since the cancer was found to be incurable, Tommy was referred to Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital for a possible transplant...
There have been only 25 human-heart transplants, with seven patients surviving-too small a sample for many firm conclusions. But there was quick agreement at Cape Town that the best surgical technique is that devised by Stanford University's Dr. Norman E. Shumway Jr., in which part of the recipient's old heart is left in place to reduce the number of blood-vessel connections needed and to protect the heart's electrical system. There was also surprising unanimity on the desirability of getting transplant patients out of bed and walking within 48 hours after their...
France's third heart-transplant patient is a man to whom the ethics and morality of the procedure are of more than usual concern. Father Damien Boulogne is a former professor of philosophy at Dominican seminaries. Two years ago, the priest had suffered a series of heart attacks that left him to tally disabled. Now 57, Father Damien got his new heart at the Hôpital Broussais-La Charité in Paris, where he is now recovering in sterile isolation. From there he wrote for La Vie Catholiqué an account of the soul-searching that preceded...
Father Damien's own resolution of the risks was in favor of the transplant, which he received May 12. Last week, building himself up on a gourmand's menu of pepper steak and Beaujolais, with a midnight snack of lamb chops among his five daily meals, he was busy correcting the proofs of his latest work-on St. Thomas Aquinas, who, says Father Damien, also believed that individual conscience, in individual circumstance, could and must override other rules in order to refer to the unwritten...
...feasible to transplant this territorial identity even to a traffic island. For example, a massive black cube sculpture rests on a tiny traffic island at the juncture of Fourth Avenue and Astor Place, where Manhattan's Bowery slum, hippieland, an industrial zone and a growing clump of theatres all converge. No one, from hippie to day laborer, fails to turn his head as he walks by, an some stop to stare. The work has become an image in my mind which is always positively associated with the area. This one sculpture gave the Astor Place neighborhood a coherent image which...