Title:
The man who touched his own heart : true tales of science, surgery, and mystery
Format:
Books
Author:
Publication Date(s):
2015
ISBN:
9780316225793
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
ix, 373 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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 -- The future science of the heart.
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. 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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