by Karl Sabbagh, Christiaan Barnard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401601996
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«El cuerpo humano» is the popular science book by Karl Sabbagh and Christiaan Barnard, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback in 1984, in Spanish.
A popular science work explaining how the human body and its main systems function, with a didactic approach supported by illustrations and photographs. The cover links it to the successful science series on TVE, and reading it helps understand the biological processes that sustain life.
The cover includes the «Divulgación» badge of Plaza & Janés, the line in which the work was published in 1984.
Due to its didactic approach, it is aimed at those who want to start in medical and biological popular science.
Christiaan Neethling Barnard was a South African cardiac surgeon who performed the world's first human-to-human heart transplant operation. On 3 December 1967, Barnard transplanted the heart of accident victim Denise Darvall into the chest of 54-year-old Louis Washkansky, who regained full consciousness and was able to talk easily with his wife, before dying 18 days later of pneumonia, largely brought on by the anti-rejection drugs that suppressed his immune system. Barnard had told Mr. and Mrs. Washkansky that the operation had an 80% chance of success, an assessment which has been criticised as misleading. Barnard's second transplant patient, Philip Blaiberg, whose operation was performed at the beginning of 1968, returned home from the hospital and lived for a year and a half.
