Artificial Hearts:: The Allure and Ambivalence of a Controversial Medical Technology Central Asia Sam Giancana

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Artificial Hearts:: The Allure and Ambivalence of a Controversial Medical Technology Central Asia Sam GiancanaArtificial hearts are seductive devices. Their promissory nature as a cure for heart failure aligned neatly with the twentieth century American medical community's view of the body as an entity of replacement parts. In Artificial Hearts, Shelley McKellar traces the controversial history of this imperfect technology beginning in the 1950s and leading up to the present day. McKellar profiles generations of researchers and devices as she traces the