by Christiaan Barnard, Siegfried Stander · Ediciones MARTINEZ ROCA, S.A. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788427002838
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«Tensión» is the medical suspense and drama novel by Christiaan Barnard and Siegfried Stander, published by Martínez Roca in hardback (454 pages, in Spanish).
Medical suspense and drama novel signed by surgeon Christiaan Barnard in collaboration with Siegfried Stander. The action takes place in the field of surgery and reflects the tension of the operating theatre; the edition includes the Spanish translation by J. Ferrer Aleu.
It belongs to the Nueva Fontana collection, with first edition in Barcelona in 1975. Original title: 'The unwanted'.
For readers of thriller and medical narrative interested in the figure of surgeon Christiaan Barnard and in suspense fiction from the seventies.
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.
