剑桥郡的帕普沃斯医院成立于1916年，旨在应对肺结核这一致命疾病，因1979年实施英国第一次心脏移植手术而闻名。此后，不仅进行了许多其他心脏移植，还于1984年进行了英国第一次心肺手术，并于1986年进行了世界第一次心肺肝移植。史学家彼得·普格（Peter Pugh）凭借对帕普沃斯档案的独特访问，首次讲述了这家开创性医院的故事。除了第一次英国心脏移植的背景——以及围绕着它的伦理争议——普格还探讨了对心脏手术的普遍反对，帕普沃思在与NHS当局打交道时遇到的困难，尤其是在资金问题上，以及50多年来关于该医院是否应该与剑桥阿登布鲁克医院并驾齐驱的讨论。作为对英国医学和外科史的深入了解，以及一个关于生与死的故事，T
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The Heart of the Matter: How Papworth Hospital Transformed Modern Heart and Lung Care
Papworth Hospital in Cambridgeshire, founded in 1916 to tackle the great killer disease of tuberculosis, is famous for carrying out the UK’s first heart transplant operation in 1979. It followed this up not only with many other heart transplants but also with the UK’s first heart and lung operation in 1984 and the world’s first heart, lung and liver transplant in 1986. With unique access to Papworth’s archives, historian Peter Pugh here tells the story of this ground-breaking hospital for the first time. Alongside the background to that first UK heart transplant – and the ethical controversies that surrounded it – Pugh explores the opposition to heart operations in general, Papworth’s difficulties dealing with NHS authorities especially over funding, and the discussions for over 50 years as to whether the hospital should move alongside Addenbrooke’s hospital in Cambridge. As an insight into the history of medicine and surgery in the UK, as well as a story literally of life and death, T
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