Heart a history

"For centuries, the human heart seemed beyond our understanding: an inscrutable shuddering mass that was the spark of life as well as somehow the driver of emotion and the seat of the soul. As the cardiologist and bestselling author Sandeep Jauhar shows in [this book], it was only recently that...

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Main Author: Jauhar, Sandeep, 1968- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.
Edition: First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue : CT scan
  • Introduction : the engine of life
  • Part I. Metaphor. A small heart
  • Prime mover
  • Part II. Machine. Clutch
  • Dynamo
  • Pump
  • Nut
  • Stress fractures
  • Pipes
  • Wires
  • Generator
  • Replacement parts
  • Part III. Mystery. Vulnerable heart
  • A mother's heart
  • Compensatory pause.