Reflections and Observations: Essays of Denton A. Cooley.

COOLEY, Denton A.

$750.00

Item Number: 146303

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. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper to his nephew, “12-7-84 To Talbot With deep affection and best wishes “Uncle Denton.” Fine in a 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.