A first look reveals content that is almost snap-the-book-shut disturbing, but persevere and you are rewarded with a beautiful human story. The transplant ward is revealed as a unique and compelling environment, with alien sights and sounds and heightened emotions countered by meditative routine and endless waiting.

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Edited by Victoria Hume, this superbly designed book is a collection of essays with a wide range of perspectives on the Transplant project and the wider issues it raises.

Book includes a 35-minute video by John Wynne and Tim Wainwright

The Transplant video is available online here
The Transplant book is available as a PDF here
To obtain the physical book/DVD, email arts@rbht.nhs.uk

CONTENTS

Introduction
Victoria Hume, Director of the UK Culture, Health & Wellbeing Alliance

Depths and clamour; inside and outside
David Toop, author of Ocean of Sound and Haunted Weather

The dance of Life
Charles Darwent, art critic for The Independent on Sunday

Heartbeat
Lesley Sharp, medical researcher and author of Strange Harvest

Why are you always so happy?
Marcia Farquhar, artist

Sound and the boundless body
Tom Rice, anthropologist and author of Hearing and the Hospital

The psychological journey of transplantation: a second chance
Claire Hallas, psychologist

A patient's perspective
Kate Dalziel, heart transplant recipient

Angus Carlyle interviews the artists
John Wynne and Tim Wainwright interview Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub

Book design by Fraser Muggeridge studio