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Dunn, Rob R. author.
Subjects
Heart -- History.
Cardiology -- History.
Heart -- Diseases -- History.
Heart -- Surgery -- History.
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The man who touched ...
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The man who touched his own
heart
: true tales of science,
surgery
, and mystery / Robert Dunn.
by
Dunn, Rob R. author.
Subjects
Heart
--
History
.
Cardiology
--
History
.
Heart
--
Diseases
--
History
.
Heart
--
Surgery
--
History
.
Publisher Info:
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2015.
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
viii, 373 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
RDA Types:
text
unmediated
volume
ISBN:
9780316225793 (hardback)
0316225797 (hardback)
Format Book:
Summary:
"The Man Who Touched His Own
Heart
tells 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? Rob Dunn's fascinating
history
of our hearts brings us deep inside the science,
history
, and stories of the four chambers we depend on most"
--
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