Medical Miracle

Week of Nov. 12, 1984
TIME describes Americans' "wonder and excitement" after doctors in California transplant a baboon heart into a human child (known only as Baby Fae), a medical miracle with ethical implications. "Antivivisectionists around the country and abroad protested what they called 'ghoulish tinkering' with human and animal life."

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