Word: organizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although the exact cause of death had not been ascertained yesterday, Mudge said Boucher probably died after his heart muscle had weakened from his body's rejection of the new organ...
Boucher was readmitted to Brigham and Women's November 25 after the latest of rejection led his doctors to apply for a new heart, but he died before a donor organ could be located...
Most heart recipients gradually become accustomed to the new organ, the doctors said...
...placing of a baboon heart into the chest of little Baby Fae caused indignation in many quarters. For some, who might safely be called eccentric, the concern was animal rights. Pickets outside Loma Linda University Medical Center and elsewhere protested the use of baboons as organ factories. Dr. Leonard Bailey, the chief surgeon, was not impressed. "I am a member of the human species," he said. Human babies come first. It was unapologetic speciesism. He did not even have to resort to sociology, to the argument that in a society that eats beef, wears mink and has for some time...
...tenured academic set, to put him off. She would deny him even a glance at her newspaper, were she not unfamiliar with the proper form of that particular snub. And the more physical manifestations of love-well. Vinnie still finds it pleasant but bittersweet, the principal male organ still seems "infected: sore, red, puffy...