The Heart Club: A history of London's heart surgery pioneers

‘The heroic early days of cardiac surgery in Britain could not be more powerfully evoked than in this compulsively readable book.' James Le Fanu, The Telegraph

Surgery on the heart was explicitly ruled out by the medical teaching of the 1940s.

A team of London doctors and scientists led by Russell Brock were determined to challenge and reverse that dogma. Together, they would help to change the history of heart surgery and the chances of survival for future patients. Brock, who had cared for ...