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True Valor: Barney Clark and the Utah Artificial Heart

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On December 2, 1982, the fully mechanical Jarvik-7 heart used to be placed inside Barney Clark, culminating years of painstaking research and making medical history by successfully pumping Clark’s blood for 112 days. True Valor takes an in-depth take a look at this significant event by telling the story of the doctors and researchers involved, of Barney Clark, and of the evolution of the artificial heart before and after Clark’s transplant. Creator Don Olsen is well situated to tell this story, having worked at the artificial heart project under Dr. Willem Kolff, the man at the back of the Jarvik-7. His narrative conveys the concerns and emotions of those who were a part of Clark’s story even as offering the insights of one who knows that research does not happen overnight but takes time, resources, and the efforts of many of us. Olsen’s account shares the human sides of this story together with the embedded politics and technical details of medical research in clear, readable language. 

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