Tough Priorities.

From: The Hastings Center Report | Date: November 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

For South Africans, heart transplantation centers are prized assets--symbols of the country's self-sufficiency, a source of national pride, and perhaps necessary to retain any capacity to provide advanced coronary care. They are also expensive to maintain in a country in which many citizens are afflicted with a low standard of living and inadequate medical attention.

Organ Triage and the Legacy of Apartheid

On 3 December 1967 South African surgeon Dr. Christiaan Barnard astounded and delighted the world by performing the first human heart transplant at the Groote Schuur Hospital ...

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