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Jones, David S. (David Shumway)
Subjects
Heart -- Surgery -- Complications -- History.
Heart -- Surgery -- History.
Coronary artery bypass -- Complications.
Coronary artery bypass -- History.
Heart -- Diseases -- Treatment -- Complications.
Heart -- Diseases -- Complications.
Heart -- Diseases.
Myocardial infarction -- Treatment -- Complications.
Myocardial infarction -- Complications.
Myocardial infarction.
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Jones, David S. (David Shumway)
Heart -- Surgery -- Complications -- History.
Heart -- Surgery -- History.
Coronary artery bypass -- Complications.
Coronary artery bypass -- History.
Heart -- Diseases -- Treatment -- Complications.
Heart -- Diseases -- Complications.
Heart -- Diseases.
Myocardial infarction -- Treatment -- Complications.
Myocardial infarction -- Complications.
Myocardial infarction.
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Broken
hearts
: the
tangled
history
of
cardiac
care
/ David S. Jones.
by
Jones, David S. (David Shumway)
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.
Call #:
616.123 J76b
Subjects
Heart -- Surgery -- Complications --
History
.
Heart -- Surgery --
History
.
Coronary artery bypass -- Complications.
Coronary artery bypass --
History
.
Heart -- Diseases -- Treatment -- Complications.
Heart -- Diseases -- Complications.
Heart -- Diseases.
Myocardial infarction -- Treatment -- Complications.
Myocardial infarction -- Complications.
Myocardial infarction.
ISBN:
9781421415758 (pbk.)
9781421408019 (hc.)
1421408015 (hc.)
Description:
xiii, 319 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-310) and index.
Contents:
The mysteries of heart attacks -- The case for plaque rupture -- The case against plaque rupture -- Learning by doing -- The plaque rupture consensus -- Rupture therapeutics -- Therapeutic ruptures -- Fear and unpredictability -- Surgical ambition and fear -- Suffering cerebrums -- Deliriogenic personalities -- The case of the missing complications -- Selective inattention -- The cerebral complications of coronary artery bypass surgery -- A taxonomy of inattention -- Competition's complications.
Summary:
Still the leading cause of death worldwide, heart disease challenges researchers, clinicians, and patients alike. Each day, thousands of patients and their doctors make decisions about coronary angioplasty and bypass surgery. David S. Jones sheds light on the nature and quality of those decisions. He describes the debates over what causes heart attacks and the efforts to understand such unforeseen complications of
cardiac
surgery as depression, mental fog, and stroke. Why do doctors and patients overestimate the effectiveness and underestimate the dangers of medical interventions, especially when doing so may lead to the overuse of medical therapies? Jones explores the
history
of cardiology and
cardiac
surgery in the United States and probes the ambiguities and inconsistencies in medical decision making. David Jones is a professor at Harvard University.
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