Reflections and Observations: Essays of Denton A. Cooley.

COOLEY, Denton A.

$400.00

Item Number: 147027

Austin, TX: Eakin Press, 1984.

First edition of this collection of essays which illuminates, with brilliant insight, our contemporary world of medicine. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, “12-7-84 To Robert White with best wishes! Denton A. Cooley MD.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Light rubbing to the extremities and hinges of the dust jacket. Collected by Marianne Kneipp. Foreword by Arthur Hailey.

American heart and cardiothoracic surgeon Denton Cooley famously performed the first implantation of a total artificial heart in a human when no heart replacement was immediately available in 1970. Cooley was also the founder and surgeon in-chief of The Texas Heart Institute, chief of Cardiovascular Surgery at clinical partner Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center, consultant in Cardiovascular Surgery at Texas Children's Hospital and a clinical professor of Surgery at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.