B1001 Simon & Schuster, NY, 1966 New York, NY, U.S.A. 1966 First U. S. Edition Dust Jacket Good Hard Cover Good Red cloth on boards. Volume has light wear and some fading to edges. Jacket is worn there are several small tears on the top edges, light moisture stain on rear panel at bottom edge. Now in clear cover. "Professor Nikolai M. Amosoff is the head of his own experimental laboratory in Kiev, in Russia, working on the application of cybernetics and computers to surgery. He is also the inventor of the 'artificial lung' apparatus and Extracorporeal Heart Lung Circulation Machine, two of the most advanced tools in open heart surgery. Above all he is a surgeon who must stop the heart before he can do his delicate work of rebuilding the damaged organ. His journal is a remarkable document. For it is a moving sensitive, emotional, autobiographical account of a great surgeon's feelings as he moves from crisis to crisis, always burdened by the agonizing ever-present responsibility for a human life." $16.00USD
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