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Memoir of the internationally acclaimed heart surgeon Victor Chang (1936-1991), written by his daughter Vanessa. Inspired by letters she received from the general public after her father's death, the author recounts her father's life and work, from his birth in China, his move to Australia when he was 15, his career in heart surgery and the first heart-lung transplant, to his research into the development of an artificial heart.
Victor Chang was a brilliant man and certainly a hero in our culture. Through his ground-breaking medical work he saved lives and helped many others and he left a legacy that will stand through time. Why was he senselessly murdered in the leafy streets of Mosman in Sydney in 1991? With his usual skill of story telling and inside knowledge of police procedure, Ron Stephenson gives a gripping account of the murder of a hero and of the police investigation that extended interstate and overseas to track down Victor Chang's killers. Sadly, this was Ron's last book before his death in 2005.
The life story of Victor Chang, one of the world's leading heart surgeons and renowned campaigner for Australia's national heart transplant program - Famous Australian people.
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This analysis of the murder of a renowned heart surgeon in 1991 discusses the rumours that surrounded his death and also examines the history of attitudes to the Chinese community within Australia.
Caribbean migration to Britain brought many new things--new music, new foods, new styles. It brought new ways of thinking too. This lively, innovative book explores the intellectual ideas which the West Indians brought with them to Britain. It shows that for more than a century West Indians living in Britain developed a dazzling intellectual critique of the codes of Imperial Britain. This is the first comprehensive discussion of the major Caribbean thinkers who came to live in twentieth-century Britain. Chapters discuss the influence of, amongst others, C.L.R. James, Una Marson, George Lamming, Jean Rhys, Claude McKay and V.S. Naipaul.
This is a literary journey of an Australian writer's encounter with the culture and people of China, particularly its young writers and artists, and of the evolving influence of China on the writer's own work and life. Nicholas Jose is the author of four novels and two collections of short stories. He was Cultural Counsellor at the Australian Embassy, Beijing, between 1987 and 1990, and has taught Australian Studies in China.
Since 1898, when Tigerstadt and Bergman first extracted renin from rabbit kidney, the reninrugs, Enzymes and Receptors of the Renin is designed to highlight molecular and clinical approaches to understanding the renin Chapter topics have been specifically chosen to cover selected contemporary, controversial and unresolved issues. A novel and uni
This issue explores the genetic basis of specific cardiomyopathies and phenotypic components of heart failure with an eye to the clinical implications of this genetic knowledge. An understanding of the genetic causes of disease can aid in development of effective prevention and management strategies.