Beating heart (A)

The heart transplant was the greatest medical adventure of the 20th century. Who would have imagined that the heart, the essential organ of life, could be replaced like a humble motor? Who would have predicted that a person who had just died could give their heart to someone else, thus saving their life? The first heart transplant exploded many myths and marked the dawning of a new era in medicine. The bombshell went off in South Africa in December 1967, not so long ago in fact, and this page of medical history is still being written.

Selected at Pariscience 2011 - AST - Ville de Paris Grand Prix
See the showing : Sunday 09th October 2011 from 20h00 to 22h45