print email comment close Partners of the Heart URL: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/partners/ Description: This companion to the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) "American Experience" program of the same title describes the collaboration between Alfred Blalock, a white surgeon, and Vivien Thomas, an African American with a high school education, in the 1944 creation of a heart surgery procedure that would save the lives of thousands of "blue babies." Includes a transcript; information about topics including "race relations, civil rights, segregation, [and] medical advances"; and a resource guide for teachers. Publisher: PBS Online; WGBH Extra Keywords Tetralogy of Fallot, cardiac Library of Congress Subject Headings: African Americans in medicine Blalock, Alfred, 1899-1964 Heart -- Surgery People Surgery, Experimental Thomas, Vivien T., 1910- LII Database Information: Record 12762 created by Sybil Finemel on 05/03/2003 Last modification on 02/02/2005 Published: 05/03/2003   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/12762