Description du livre Hardcover. Etat : New. 1. The bestselling author of Intern and Doctored tells the story of the thing that makes us tickFor 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 worlds first open heart surgery in Gilded Age Chicago. We meet C. Walton Lillehei, who connected a patients circulatory system to a healthy donors, 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 familys history of heart ailments and the patients hes 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. N� de r�f. du vendeur DADAX0374168652

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Heart: A History

Jauhar, Sandeep

Edit� par Farrar Straus Giroux (2018)

ISBN 10 : 0374168652 ISBN 13 : 9780374168650

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Description du livre Hardcover. Etat : New. Hardcover. Publisher overstock, may contain remainder mark on edge. N� de r�f. du vendeur 9780374168650B

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Description du livre Etat : New. New! This book is in the same immaculate condition as when it was published 1.05. N� de r�f. du vendeur 353-0374168652-new

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