The Heart of the Matter: How Papworth Hospital Transformed Modern Heart and Lung Care

by Peter Pugh

Papworth Hospital in Cambridgeshire, founded in 1916 to tackle the great killer disease of tuberculosis, is famous for carrying out the UK's first heart transplant operation in 1979. It followed this up not only with many other heart transplants but also with the UK's first heart and lung operation in 1984 and the world's first heart, lung and liver transplant in 1986.

With unique access to Papworth's archives, historian Peter Pugh here...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848319428
• ISBN13: 9781848319424
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Icon Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.7" x 8.7"