Welcome to the Natal Better Show. I'm your host Paul Vogel-Sang and this is episode number

294.

As part of our Smithsonian Associates' Art of Living Inside Science series, our guest today is Shelly

McEller. Shelly McEller earned a PhD in history from the University of Toronto and worked as a Smithsonian scholar at the National

Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.

Shelley McKeller is the Hannah-endow chair of medical history and she is appointed as a joint

tenured associate professor in the Department of History and the Department of

Surgery at Western University Shullet School of Medicine and Dentistry in Ontario, Canada.

Today on the Not Old Better Show Inside Science series, we'll be talking with Shelly

McKeller about artificial hearts which have a controversial medical history

after sensational patient cases from Barney Clark, to Vice President Dick Cheney that

will be very familiar to our not old Better Show audience.

When I talk about the artificial heart, most people remember the Jarvik 7 Hart and that it was

implanted in 1982 in Barney Clark in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Barney Clark was the first recipient of a permanently implanted

total artificial heart, and Barney Clark lived 112 days

with this heart, 1982 to 83.

And what's so exciting about this implant

was that Barney Clark actually woke up

with an artificial heart in his chest.

His disease, Human heart had been removed.

The Jarvik's seven total artificial heart was now in his chest. Barney Clark

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