Stories
- Article
The tale of the toxic kidneys
In 1954 a serendipitous coming together of skills and circumstances allowed the first successful organ transplant to take place. Read how Richard Herrick’s life was prolonged by his identical twin’s generosity.
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The girl with no name
When a now anonymous teenager sold her tooth for transplant, she couldn’t have predicted that she’d end up at the heart of a troubling story about 18th-century beauty ideals.
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Ken’s ten: looking back at ten years of Wellcome Collection
Wellcome Collection founder Ken Arnold picks his favourite exhibits.
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Born in the NHS
Despite underfunding, strikes and scandals, the first two decades of the 2000s has seen the British people’s love of and loyalty to the NHS soar.
Catalogue
- Books
Heart transplantation / British Heart Foundation.
Date: 2005- Books
Heart transplantation : the present status of orthotopic and heterotopic heart transplantation / edited by D.K.C. Cooper and R.P. Lanza.
Date: [1984], ©1984
- Pictures
- Online
Heart transplantation: surgeons contemplate a heart; a skeleton (Death) consoles the dead donor; a nude woman comforts the living donor. Colour lithograph.
Date: [between 1970 and 1979?]Reference: 995808i- Archives and manuscripts
Press and Journal Cuttings: Organ Retrieval: Kidney, Liver, Lung, Heart
Date: 1999-2000Reference: SA/BTS/B/5/20Part of: British Transplantation Society- Archives and manuscripts
Drawings of techniques of heart transplantation
Date: c.1967-1969Reference: GC/238/9/9Part of: Ross, Sir (James) Keith