Christiaan Barnard
Christiaan Barnard
Christiaan Barnard was born on November 8, 1922, in Leesvlei, South Africa. Renowned as a pioneering heart surgeon, he is celebrated for performing the world’s first successful human heart transplant in 1967. Barnard's groundbreaking work in medical science has made a significant impact on modern medicine and transplant surgery.
Personal Name: Christiaan Barnard
Birth: 1922
Death: 2001
Christiaan Barnard Books
(2 Books)
This book is the autobiography of the famed South African heart-transplanter. The novelistic (conversations recreated years after they took place), breathless prose disqualifies much of Barnard's story as good medical history, but its inherent drama will hold even the critical reader. - Annals of Internal Medicine.
