Bluffs and Piasa Bird, 2016

Early Recipients of Heart Transplants at Barnes Hospital in the 1980s

Citation

“Early Recipients of Heart Transplants at Barnes Hospital in the 1980s,” Madison Historical, accessed April 25, 2024, https://madison-historical.siue.edu/archive/items/show/2051.

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Description

This photograph shows some of the first recipients of a heart transplant at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis, today Barnes-Jewish Hospital. Barnes started performing heart transplants in 1985.

This photograph was scanned as part of a Madison Historical class visit to Civic Memorial High School in spring 2019. It was brought to class by Mary Joe Kirby.

Subjects

  • health
  • health care

Contributor

  • Kirby, Mary

Date

circa 1986 - 1987

Type

  • Photograph

Format

  • jpg
  • Black and white photographic print

Coverage

  • 1980s

Identifier

  • Kirby-Mary-P-0001
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