Artificial hearts : the allure and ambivalence of a controversial medical technology / Shelley McKellar.

Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2018]

xii, 350 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cm

Introduction : fighting heart disease with machines and devices -- Multiple approaches to building artificial hearts : technological optimism and political support in the early years -- Dispute and disappointment : heart transplantation and total artificial heart implant cases in the 1960s -- Technology and risk : nuclear-powered artificial hearts and medical device regulation -- Media spotlight : the Utah total artificial heart and the charge of bioethics -- Clinical and commercial rewards : ventricular assist devices -- Securing a place : therapeutic clout and second-generation VADs -- Artificial hearts in the twenty-first century.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-338) and index.