The African American Heart Surgery Pioneer

Author : Edwin Brit Wyckoff
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781464611230

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The African-American Heart Surgery Pioneer by Edwin Brit Wyckoff Pdf

Vivien Theodore Thomas was an African-American surgical technician who developed the procedures used to treat blue baby syndrome in the 1940s. He was an assistant to surgeon Alfred Blalock in Blalock's experimental animal laboratory at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee and later at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Without any education past high school, Thomas rose above poverty and racism to become a cardiac surgery pioneer and a teacher of operative techniques to many of the country's most prominent surgeons. Vivien Thomas was the first African American without a doctorate to perform open heart surgery on a white patient in the United States.

Author : Vivien T. Thomas
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1998-01-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0812216342

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Partners of the Heart by Vivien T. Thomas Pdf

Visitors to the Blalock Building at the Johns Hopkins University Medical Center are greeted by portraits of two great men. One, of renowned heart surgeon Alfred Blalock, speaks for itself. The other, of highschool graduate Vivien Thomas, is testimony to the incredible genius and determination of the first black man to hold a professional position at one of America's premier medical institutions. Thomas's dreams of attending medical school were dashed when the Depression hit. After spending some time as a carpenter's apprentice, Thomas took what he expected to be a temporary job as a technician in Blalock's lab. The two men soon became partners and together invented the field of cardiac surgery. Partners of the Heart is Thomas's extraordinary autobiography. Trained in laboratory techniques by Alfred Blalock and Joseph W. Beard, Thomas remained Blalock's principal technician and laboratory chief for the rest of Blalock's distinguished career. Thomas very rapidly learned to perform surgery, to do chemical determinations, and to carry out physiologic studies. He became a phenomenal technician and was able to carry out complicated experimental cardiac operations totally unassisted and to devise new ones. In addition to telling Thomas's life story, Partners of the Heart traces the beginnings of modern cardiac surgery, crucial investigations into the nature of shock, and Blalock's methods of training surgeons.

Author : Gwendolyn Hooks
Publisher : Lee & Low Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1620141566

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Tiny Stitches by Gwendolyn Hooks Pdf

The life story of Vivien Thomas, an African American surgical technician who developed the first procedure used to perform open-heart surgery on children.

Author : David Cooper
Publisher : Fonthill Media
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Christiaan Barnard: by David Cooper Pdf

Author : Judith Kaye
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books (CT)
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : African American physicians
ISBN : UOM:39015029091694

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The Life of Daniel Hale Williams by Judith Kaye Pdf

The life story of the famous doctor who pioneered heart surgery & also helped open up the medical profession to African Americans.

Author : Don K. Nakayama,Peter J. Kernahan,Edward E. Cornwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1736921215

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Black Surgeons and Surgery in America by Don K. Nakayama,Peter J. Kernahan,Edward E. Cornwell Pdf

Author : William S. Stoney
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780826515940

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Pioneers of Cardiac Surgery by William S. Stoney Pdf

Heart operations today are quite common and relatively low-risk, but in the beginning it was just the opposite. Cardiac operations were reserved for desperately ill patients. The author documents this dramatic transition with profiles of 38 surgeons who were active between 1940 and 1985. The profiles are edited transcripts of interviews videotaped between 1996 and 2004. They tell of the development of new techniques such as the "blue baby operation," the first heart-lung machine, the first artificial heart valve, and the first coronary bypass operation. They also tell the unusual life stories of the surgeons and allude to professional and institutional rivalries. A particularly valuable part of the book is the author's brief history of cardiac surgery, designed to orient the reader for reading the profiles that follow.

Author : Hilton M. Hudson,Herbert Stern
Publisher : Hilton Publishing
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2001-05
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0967525837

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The Heart of the Matter by Hilton M. Hudson,Herbert Stern Pdf

This book offers a better understanding of heart disease, including its symptoms; treatment options, benefits, and risks; what to expect from surgery; and how to recognize, prevent, and manage stress. This book will help African Americans reduce their risk of heart disease and live longer, healthier lives.

Author : Stuart Jamieson
Publisher : RosettaBooks
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780795352225

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Close to the Sun by Stuart Jamieson Pdf

“A surgeon internationally recognized for his expertise in heart and lung transplants . . . writes with assurance and aplomb about his achievements.” —Kirkus Reviews Stuart Jamieson has lived two lives. One began in heat and dust. Born to British ex-pats in colonial Africa, Jamieson was sent at the age of eight to a local boarding school, where heartless instructors bullied and tormented their students. In the summers he escaped to fish on crocodile-infested rivers and explore the African bush. As a teenager, an apprenticeship with one of Africa’s most fabled trackers taught Jamieson how to deal with dangerous game and even more dangerous poachers, lessons that would later serve him well in the high-stakes career he chose. Jamieson’s second life unfolded when he went to London to study medicine during the turbulent 1960s, leaving behind the only home he knew as it descended into revolution. Brilliant and self-assured, Jamieson advanced quickly in the still-new field of open-heart surgery. It was a fraught time. For patients with terminal heart disease, heart transplants were the new hope. But poor outcomes had all but ended the procedure. In 1978 Jamieson came to America and to Stanford—the only cardiac center in the world doing heart transplants successfully. Here, Jamieson’s pioneering work on the anti-rejection drug cyclosporin would help to make heart transplantation a routine life-saving operation, that is still in practice today as he continues to train the next generation of heart surgeons. Stuart Jamieson’s story is the story of four decades of advances in heart surgery. “Every reader interested in the history behind one of medicine’s riskiest procedures will find it fascinating.” —Booklist

Author : G. Wayne Miller
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2000-02-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780609807248

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King of Hearts by G. Wayne Miller Pdf

Few of the great stories of medicine are as palpably dramatic as the invention of open-heart surgery, yet, until now, no journalist has ever brought all of the thrilling specifics of this triumph to life. This is the story of the surgeon many call the father of open-heart surgery, Dr. C. Walton Lillehei, who, along with colleagues at University Hospital in Minneapolis and a small band of pioneers elsewhere, accomplished what many experts considered to be an impossible feat: He opened the heart, repaired fatal defects, and made the miraculous routine. Acclaimed author G. Wayne Miller draws on archival research and exclusive interviews with Lillehei and legendary pioneers such as Michael DeBakey and Christiaan Barnard, taking readers into the lives of these doctors and their patients as they progress toward their landmark achievement. In the tradition of works by Richard Rhodes and Tracy Kidder, King of Hearts tells the story of an important and gripping piece of forgotten science history.

Author : Kareem Abdul Jabbar
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-13
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780763664411

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What Color Is My World? by Kareem Abdul Jabbar Pdf

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, basketball legend and the NBA's alltime leading scorer, champions a lineup of little-known African-American inventors in this lively, kid-friendly book. Did you know that James West invented the microphone in your cell phone? That Fred Jones invented the refrigerated truck that makes supermarkets possible? Or that Dr. Percy Julian synthesized cortisone from soy, easing untold people’s pain? These are just some of the black inventors and innovators scoring big points in this dynamic look at several unsung heroes who shared a desire to improve people’s lives. Offering profiles with fast facts on flaps and framed by a funny contemporary story featuring two feisty twins, here is a nod to the minds behind the gamma electric cell and the ice-cream scoop, improvements to traffic lights, open-heart surgery, and more — inventors whose ingenuity and perseverance against great odds made our world safer, better, and brighter. Back matter includes an authors’ note and sources.

Author : Khanye Tsebo
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780359496570

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From Africa To America To The World by Khanye Tsebo Pdf

This book is about the history of Many African's from Africa, the Americas to the entire world. Even the spirituality that has been demonized for many years.

Author : Sandeep Jauhar
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780374717001

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Heart: A History by Sandeep Jauhar Pdf

The bestselling author of Intern and Doctored tells the story of the thing that makes us tick For centuries, the human heart seemed beyond our understanding: an inscrutable shuddering mass that was somehow the driver of emotion and the seat of the soul. As the cardiologist and bestselling author Sandeep Jauhar shows in Heart: A History, it was only recently that we demolished age-old taboos and devised the transformative procedures that have changed the way we live. Deftly alternating between key historical episodes and his own work, Jauhar tells the colorful and little-known story of the doctors who risked their careers and the patients who risked their lives to know and heal our most vital organ. He introduces us to Daniel Hale Williams, the African American doctor who performed the world’s first open heart surgery in Gilded Age Chicago. We meet C. Walton Lillehei, who connected a patient’s circulatory system to a healthy donor’s, paving the way for the heart-lung machine. And we encounter Wilson Greatbatch, who saved millions by inventing the pacemaker—by accident. Jauhar deftly braids these tales of discovery, hubris, and sorrow with moving accounts of his family’s history of heart ailments and the patients he’s treated over many years. He also confronts the limits of medical technology, arguing that future progress will depend more on how we choose to live than on the devices we invent. Affecting, engaging, and beautifully written, Heart: A History takes the full measure of the only organ that can move itself.

Author : Elizabeth Blackwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : NYPL:33433082358072

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Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women by Elizabeth Blackwell Pdf

Elizabeth Blackwell, though born in England, was reared in the United States and was the first woman to receive a medical degree here, obtaining it from the Geneva Medical College, Geneva, New York, in 1849. A pioneer in opening the medical profession to women, she founded hospitals and medical schools for women in both the United States and England. She was a lecturer and writer as well as an able physician and organizer. -- H.W. Orr.

Author : Vivien T. Thomas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Cardiovascular system
ISBN : UOM:39015010648700

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Pioneering Research in Surgical Shock and Cardiovascular Surgery by Vivien T. Thomas Pdf

Vivien T. Thomas, a high school graduate, was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Johns Hopkins University and was made a member of the medical school faculty in recognition of his contributions to the practice of cardiovascular surgery and to the education of young surgeons. Pioneering Research in Surgical Shock and Cardiovascular Surgery is the autobiography of this extraordinary black man who struggled against overwhelming odds and achieved international recognition in a highly sophisticated field in which he had no formal education or certification.