by Christiaan Barnard · Circulo De Lectores, S.A. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422611165
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«Tiempo de nacer, tiempo de morir» is the novel by Christiaan Barnard, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (263 pages, in Spanish).
Christiaan Barnard, a South African surgeon, sets the action in a hospital and turns medical work into the setting for a reflection on life, death and professional ethics. The novel follows its characters through emergencies and difficult decisions, without neglecting human fragility at the boundary between healing and letting go.
The novel, of which a translation by Jordi Arbonès exists, appeared in Spanish in 1979; its original title is In the Night Season.
For readers of contemporary fiction seeking stories set in a hospital environment and ethical dilemmas in medicine.
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.
