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“Christiaan Barnard, for all his well-documented flaws, would later agree with the Americans. “You have to recognize that in South Africa we didn’t have the legal restraints of other countries,” he confided to British medical writer John Illman. “I didn’t even have to ask permission to do that first transplant. I just told the hospital authorities after I had done it. Can you imagine that happening anywhere else in the world?”39”
― The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South
― The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South
“Is the death of a person a matter of medical judgment, left to the physician to determine, or is it a legal question?” It was, in its own way, an updated version of the nineteenth-century controversies over body snatching,”
― The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South
― The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South
“Philip Morris always managed to make billions of dollars in profits. It did so by adapting to the changes in the political, legal, and cultural climate. The same couldn’t be said, however, of the nearby public hospital that treated thousands of Virginians each year for heart disease, lung cancer, and emphysema. This was especially true of MCV’s years of hand-wringing about finally stamping out its racist practices.”
― The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South
― The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South
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