Examining Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa—world famous as the site of the world's first heart transplant operation in 1967—this rich and probing history offers a new kind of hospital record. Drawing on abundant documentary and visual sources and a wide variety of individual memories, a team of historians weaves personal stories into a skillful analysis of the hospital's clinical and institutional culture.
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Anne Digby is a research professor in history at Oxford Brookes University in Cape Town and the author of numerous works on welfare and the social history of medicine in Britain and South Africa. Howard Phillips and Harriet Deacon are the editors of The Cape Doctor in the Nineteenth Century. Kirsten Thomson is a research assistant specializing in South African history.
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