Heimlich`s Maneuvers: My Seventy Years of Lifesaving Innovation, Heimlich Henry J.

The thoracic surgeon is best known for having developed the Heimlich Maneuver, the worlds easiest-to-learn and most universally known method to save people from choking to death on food or foreign objects. But many dont know about Dr. Heimlichs other life-saving inventions. He is the inventor of the Heimlich Chest Drain Valve, which saved thousands of lives during the Vietnam War, and the Heimlich MicroTrach, which provides a remarkably efficient way for people to take oxygen.

In the present decade, Dr. Heimlich has turned his attention to two devastating illnesses for which medicine has not yet found a cure--cancer and HIV. He describes his research and its promise, as well as the controversy and resistance his new ideas have generated from the medical establishment.