Heartbreaker

Christiaan Barnard and the first heart transplant

James-Brent Styan

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English

Jonathan Ball Publishers SA
01 November 2017

Biography: science, technology & engineering; Medical profession; Transplant surgery

In this new biography of Chris Barnard we not only learn about the life of South Africas most famous surgeon, from his Beaufort West childhood through his studies locally and abroad to his prominent marriages

and divorces

but James Styan also examines the impact of the historic heart transplant on Barnards personal life and South African society at large, where apartheid legislation often made the difficulties of medicine even more convoluted. The role of black medical staff like Hamilton Naki is explored, as is the intense rivalry that arose between other famous heart surgeons and Barnard. How did Barnard manage to beat them all in this race of life and death? How much did his famous charisma have to do with it all? And in the light of his later years, his subsequent successes and considerable failures, what is Barnards legacy today? Styan covers it all in this fascinating new account of a real heartbreaker.

By: James-Brent Styan
Imprint: Jonathan Ball Publishers SA
Dimensions: Height: 233mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 500g
ISBN: 9781868428427
ISBN 10: 1868428427
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 01 November 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

James-Brent Styan has been the Media Liaison Officer for the Western Cape Minister of Local Government and Environmental Affairs since 2014. Previously James was a senior political correspondent for Media24 in Parliament, after working as a financial reporter in Johannesburg for a number of years. His first book Blackout: The Eskom Crisis was published in 2015. James studied at the universities of Pretoria and Stellenbosch, and qualified as an accountant before becoming a journalist.