Christiaan Barnard

Just after her sixteenth birthday, Will's daughter, Georgie, suffers kidney failure. She needs a transplant, but her type is rare. Will, a single dad who's given up everything to raise his twin girls, offers to be a donor. Then his other daughter, Kay, gets sick. She's just as precious, her kidney type just as rare. Time is critical, and Will has to make a decision. Should he try to buy a kidney? Should he save just one child? If so, which one? Should he sacrifice himself? Or is there a fourth solution - one so terrible it has never even crossed his mind?

Cassie Winslow is sixteen. She has just lost her mother in a terrible accident. Now, lonely and frightened, she has come to live with the father she barely knows and his new family in tiny False Harbor on Cape Cod. For Cassie, the strange, unsettling dreams that come to her suddenly in the dead of night are merely the beginning. Very soon, Cassie Winslow will come to know the terrifying powers that are her gift. And in the village of False Harbor, nothing will ever be the same. (from the Dust Jacket)

This book is the autobiography of the famed South African heart-transplanter. The novelistic (conversations recreated years after they took place), breathless prose disqualifies much of Barnard's story as good medical history, but its inherent drama will hold even the critical reader. - Annals of Internal Medicine.

A strong advocate of euthanasia, the world-reowned heart surgeon explains his views on the patient's right to die,cloning, freezing bodies, and recombinant DNA and RNA research.

Discusses how the human body works and how to keep it in the best of physical health through exercise and eating the right kind of food. Based on the television series "Body Machine" by the pioneer of human-to-human heart transplant surgery.

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