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At the Heart of Healing: Groote Schuur Hospital, 1938-2008
At the Heart of Healing Groote Schuur Hospital 19382008 Author:Anne Digby, Howard Phillips, Harriet Deacon, Kirsten Thomson Examining Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africaworld famous as the site of the world's first heart transplant operation in 1967this 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 person... more »al stories into a skillful analysis of the hospital's clinical and institutional culture.« less