维维恩·西奥多·托马斯(英语:Vivien Theodore Thomas,1910年8月29日—1985年11月26日)是一名美国外科手术技师。1944年,托马斯和外科医生阿尔弗雷德·布莱洛克、心脏学家海伦·陶西格在救治一名法洛四联症患儿时,首次实施了布莱洛克-托马斯-陶西格分流术[1][2][3]。手术的成功直接打破了当时医学界对心脏外科手术的忌讳[1][2]。
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由于托马斯是黑人,因此他在外科领域的贡献曾长期不获承认。后来美国国内的种族歧视逐渐弱化,托马斯的贡献才渐渐为世人所知[4]。他的故事由HBO于2004年拍摄为传记型电影《天赐良医》。
- McCabe, Katie. Like Something the Lord Made. Washingtonian. August 1989.
- Thomas, Vivien. Pioneering Research in Surgical Shock and Cardiovascular Surgery: Vivien Thomas and his Work with Alfred Blalock: an Autobiography. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 1985. ISBN 978-0-8122-7989-4.
- Thomas, Vivien. Partners of the Heart: Vivien Thomas and His Work with Alfred Blalock pbk. University of Pennsylvania Press. 1998. ISBN 0-8122-1634-2. (originally published as Pioneering Research in Surgical Shock and Cardiovascular Surgery: Vivien Thomas and His Work with Alfred Blalock)
- (2003) Timmermans Stefan, "A Black Technician and Blue Babies" in Social Studies of Science 33:2 (April 2003), 197–229.
- (2006) Tsung O. Cheng, "Hamilton Naki and Christiaan Barnard Versus Vivien Thomas and Alfred Blalock: Similarities and Dissimilarities" in American Journal of Cardiology 97:3 (February 1, 2006), 435–436.
- (2003). Partners of the Heart. (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) American Experience
- (2004) "Something the Lord Made", HBO movie, Portrayed by Mos Def