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Dunn, Rob R.
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Heart -- History.
Cardiology -- History.
Heart -- Diseases -- History.
Heart -- Surgery -- History.
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Dunn, Rob R.
Heart -- History.
Cardiology -- History.
Heart -- Diseases -- History.
Heart -- Surgery -- History.
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The man who touched his own heart : true tales of science, surgery, and mystery / Rob Dunn.
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Dunn, Rob R.
Little, Brown and Company, 2015.
Call #:
612
.17
D923m
Subjects
Heart -- History.
Cardiology -- History.
Heart -- Diseases -- History.
Heart -- Surgery -- History.
ISBN:
9780316225793 (hc.)
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
viii, 373 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-364) and index.
Contents:
The human heart -- The bar fight that precipitated the dawn of heart surgery -- The Prince of the Heart -- When art reinvented science -- Blood's orbit -- Seeing the thing that eats the heart -- The rhythm method -- Frankenstein's monsters -- Atomic cows -- Lighter than a feather -- Mending the broken heart -- War and fungus -- The perfect diet -- The beetle and the cigarette -- The book of broken hearts -- The evolution of broken hearts -- Sugarcoating heart disease -- Escaping the laws of nature -- Postscript : the future science of the heart.
Summary:
"The raucous, gory, mesmerizing story of the heart, from the first "explorers" who dug up cadavers and plumbed their hearts' chambers, through the first heart surgeries-which had to be completed in three minutes before death arrived-to heart transplants and the latest medical efforts to prolong our hearts' lives, almost defying nature in the process. Thought of as the seat of our soul, then as a mysteriously animated object, the heart is still more a mystery than it is understood. Why do most animals only get one billion beats? (And how did modern humans get to over two billion-effectively letting us live out two lives?) Why are sufferers of gingivitis more likely to have heart attacks? Why do we often undergo expensive procedures when cheaper ones are just as effective? What do Da Vinci, Mary Shelley, and contemporary Egyptian archaeologists have in common? And what does it really feel like to touch your own heart, or to have someone else's beating inside your chest? This fascinating history brings us deep inside the science, history, and stories of the four chambers we depend on most"--Provided by publisher.
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