Word: transplant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...culture transplant poses the same difficulty as a heart transplant. It is socially as well as biologically instinctive to reject what is alien. One slightly condescending form of acceptance is to treat what is foreign as exotic. Culturally speaking, this makes one man's meat another man's persimmon. In many ways, the Grand Kabuki is a Japanese persimmon on a U.S. theatergoer's palate. It is a sweet, sumptuous and strange new taste sensation with which to start the Broadway season...
...Christiaan Barnard's-and the world's-first patient to receive a transplanted human heart, Louis Washkansky, lived for only 18 days after his historic operation. But Barnard's second transplant recipient, Dentist Philip Blaiberg, recovered fully, wrote a book about his experiences and displayed such a zest for life that he went swimming on the first anniversary of his operation. Last week, after surviving for an incredible 594 days with another man's heart in his chest-longer by far than any other heart transplant patient-Blaiberg died peacefully in the same Cape Town hospital...
...challenge that confronted heart-transplant teams in Blaiberg's case, as it has in all others, was more medical than surgical. The South African dentist was 58 when his own heart reached such an advanced stage of slow, progressive failure that it could no longer pump enough oxygenated blood to support any physical activity. After having been obliged to give up his dental practice, Blaiberg was bedfast. It was problematical whether he would hold out for another month or even a week. In these circumstances, Barnard felt fully justified in removing Blaiberg's heart and replacing it with...
Divorced. Dr. Christiaan Barnard, 46, South African surgeon who in 1967 rose to fame by performing the first successful human heart transplant; by Aletta Gertruida Barnard, 45, a former nurse at Groote Schuur Hospital; on grounds of technical desertion; after 21 years of marriage, two children; in Cape Town, South Africa. Though Barnard obviously enjoyed his celebrity status, his wife was less impressed. "I've got a home to run," she said at one point, "whether we are famous...
...other disputed case, John Madden, 55, the world's first recipient of an eye transplant involving substantially more than the cornea, left Houston's Methodist Hospital and went home. Dr. Conard Moore had grafted the front part of a donor eye to the remainder of Madden's right eye. Although Madden cannot even distinguish light from dark through the transplant, still he credited Moore with "a miracle...