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...success of the procedure over the past three decades has created a new problem: rising demand. With far more patients in need than donors, researchers have high hopes for alternative treatments, including stem-cell therapy or heart pumps. Twenty-five years after Baby Fae, the learning continues...
Twenty-five years ago on Nov. 15, Baby Fae's world-famous heart stopped beating. But the medical implications of her short life, said her surgeon, Dr. Leonard Bailey of California's Loma Linda University Medical Center, were just beginning. On Oct. 26, 1984, Bailey had stitched a walnut-sized baboon heart into Stephanie Fae Beauclair's tiny chest, making her the first infant to receive a cross-species heart transplant. Amid protests from animal-rights activists, Americans hung on every thump of her simian heart for three short weeks. When her weakened body went into kidney failure and finally...
Whither PJ Harvey? Three years ago, while on tour to promote her unforgettable To Bring You My Love album, the reclusive English songstress revamped herself in an almost literal way. Suddenly she became a sort of hybrid of Tammy Fae Baker and Siouxsie Sioux, her eyes swathed in colors more appropriate to tropical fish, her red gash of a mouth hissing out the stories of weary paramours and suffering Magdalenes, then growling out feverish invocations that "Yeah I'm ready to meet ze monsta tonight...
...redemption and horror. Her striking installation monopolizes the historic connotations and graphic irony of the cutpaper silhouette, which despite its crisp, precise line shadows its subjects and prevents full narrative disclosure. In addition, both Zoe Leonard's archive of 82 distressed photographs from the life of the fictitious actress Fae Richards and Michael Ashkin's sculpture of two tiny trucks crossing an expansive landscape provide equally elliptical yet strangely engrossing narratives...
Many physicians had written off this kind of organ swapping between species back in 1984, when Dr. Leonard Bailey of Loma Linda University Hospital in California transplanted a baboon's heart into a two-week-old infant known as Baby Fae. Three weeks after the operation, the child died of kidney failure, and Bailey was heavily criticized for experimenting on a human with little chance of success...