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Dr Christiaan Barnard

16/12/2025 · by · in neuropsychiatry · Leave a comment

Christiaan Barnard performed the world’s first human heart transplant because American medicine taught him how, then refused to let him do it. In the mid-1960s, heart transplantation was not a dream. It was a taboo. The science existed, but in the United States it was buried under legal fear, ethical paralysis, and institutional risk control. […]