Reflections and Observations: Essays of Denton A. Cooley.

COOLEY, Denton A.

$450.00

Item Number: 146290

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. Boldly signed by Denton A. Cooley on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine 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.