Medindia

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Medicine, Art & Literature

Medicine is a well-known theme in famous pieces of art and literature, the relationship between them is evident in the power of expression intelligently used to reveal and record information about many types of diseases and its cure.

Christiaan Barnard


Birth - Death : 1922- 2001
Country : South Africa
Medical School : University of Cape Town Medical School
Special Mention : Christiaan Barnard performed the world's first successful human-to-human heart transplant nad the first kidney transplant in South Africa, 1959.
Fiction : The Unwanted (with Siegfried Stander) (1975) In the Night Season (1978)