Heart : a history
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New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Mancos Library District - NONFICTION | 612.17 JAU | In memory of Patrick LaChappelle | On Shelf |
Nederland Community Library - NONFICTION | 612.17 Jauhar | On Shelf | |
Ridgway Public Library - NONFICTION | 612.17 JAU | On Shelf | |
South Routt Library District - Yampa - NONFICTION | 612.17 JAU | On Shelf |
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Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Includes index.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description
For centuries, the human heart seemed beyond our understanding: an inscrutable shuddering mass that was somehow the driver of emotion and the seat of the soul. As the cardiologist and bestselling author Sandeep Jauhar shows in Heart: A History, it was only recently that we demolished age-old taboos and devised the transformative procedures that have changed the way we live.
Deftly alternating between key historical episodes and his own work, Jauhar tells the colorful and little-known story of the doctors who risked their careers and the patients who risked their lives to know and heal our most vital organ. He introduces us to Daniel Hale Williams, the African American doctor who performed the world’s first open heart surgery in Gilded Age Chicago. We meet C. Walton Lillehei, who connected a patient’s circulatory system to a healthy donor’s, paving the way for the heart-lung machine. And we encounter Wilson Greatbatch, who saved millions by inventing the pacemaker—by accident. Jauhar deftly braids these tales of discovery, hubris, and sorrow with moving accounts of his family’s history of heart ailments and the patients he’s treated over many years. He also confronts the limits of medical technology, arguing that future progress will depend more on how we choose to live than on the devices we invent. Affecting, engaging, and beautifully written, Heart: A History takes the full measure of the only organ that can move itself.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Jauhar, S. (2018). Heart: a history (First edition.). Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Jauhar, Sandeep, 1968-. 2018. Heart: A History. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Jauhar, Sandeep, 1968-. Heart: A History Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Jauhar, Sandeep. Heart: A History First edition., Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.
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