The Curious History Of The Heart
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The Curious History Of The Heart A Cultural And Scientific Journey
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Author : Vincent M. Figueredo
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024-10-29
The Curious History Of The Heart A Cultural And Scientific Journey written by Vincent M. Figueredo and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-10-29 with Science categories.
The Curious History Of The Heart
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Author : Vincent M. Figueredo
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2023-04-04
The Curious History Of The Heart written by Vincent M. Figueredo and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-04 with Science categories.
Gold Award Winner, 2024 Nonfiction Book Awards For much of recorded history, people considered the heart to be the most important organ in the body. In cultures around the world, the heart—not the brain—was believed to be the location of intelligence, memory, emotion, and the soul. Over time, views on the purpose of the heart have transformed as people sought to understand the life forces it contains. Modern medicine and science dismissed what was once the king of the organs as a mere blood pump subservient to the brain, yet the heart remains a potent symbol of love and health and an important part of our cultural iconography. This book traces the evolution of our understanding of the heart from the dawn of civilization to the present. Vincent M. Figueredo—an accomplished cardiologist and expert on the history of the human heart—explores the role and significance of the heart in art, culture, religion, philosophy, and science across time and place. He examines how the heart really works, its many meanings in our emotional and daily lives, and what cutting-edge science is teaching us about this remarkable organ. Figueredo considers the science of heart disease, recent advancements in heart therapies, and what the future may hold. He highlights the emerging field of neurocardiology, which has found evidence of a “heart-brain connection” in mental and physical health, suggesting that ancient views hold more truth than moderns suspect. Ranging widely and deeply throughout human history, this book sheds new light on why the heart remains so central to our sense of self.
The Curious History Of Love
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Author : Jean-Claude Kaufmann
language : en
Publisher: Polity
Release Date : 2011-12-12
The Curious History Of Love written by Jean-Claude Kaufmann and has been published by Polity this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-12 with Family & Relationships categories.
The one emotion that matters most to many people is the one about which social thinkers rarely speak - love. For many people, love is the thing that matters most in their lives: they are searching for love, hoping to find in love a kind of happiness that they cannot find in their work or by surrounding themselves with material goods. But where does this peculiar and powerful blending together of love and happiness come from, and why do we find it such a compelling idea today? In this short book Jean-Claude Kaufmann offers a fresh account of the history of a feeling unlike any other. The modern idea of love as passion was born in the 12th century but it was marginalized by the rise of a kind of instrumental, calculating reason that became increasingly central to modern societies. As calculating reason began to encroach on the personal domain, many individuals sought to escape from it, searching for happiness elsewhere. As our societies become dominated by calculating reason and selfish individualism, we search elsewhere for the kind of happy love that will heal all our wounds. This is why we experience so many changes of heart in our personal lives: at times we are coldly calculating and then, a few moments later, we sacrifice ourselves to love without a second thought. Written by one of France’s leading sociologists, this highly readable book sheds new light on love and happiness and will resonate with many readers.
Heart A History
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Author : Sandeep Jauhar
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2018-09-18
Heart A History written by Sandeep Jauhar and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-18 with Medical categories.
The bestselling author of Intern and Doctored tells the story of the thing that makes us tick 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.
A History Of The Heart
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
A History Of The Heart written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with categories.
A fascinating investigation into the heart, the locus of grief, joy, and power, through human culture, history, myth and science.
The Curious History Of The Crossword
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Author : Ben Tausig
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-11-27
The Curious History Of The Crossword written by Ben Tausig and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-27 with Art categories.
Discover the curious history of the world's most addictive game and its unusual upbringing. Celebrating the 100-year anniversary of the beloved crossword puzzle, readers can solve over 100 different puzzles from top constructors.
State Of The Heart
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Author : Haider Warraich
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Release Date : 2019-07-23
State Of The Heart written by Haider Warraich and has been published by Macmillan + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-23 with Medical categories.
In State of the Heart, Dr. Haider Warraich takes readers inside the ER, inside patients' rooms, and inside the history and science of cardiac disease. State of the Heart traces the entire arc of the heart, from the very first time it was depicted on stone tablets, to a future in which it may very well become redundant. While heart disease has been around for a while, the type of heart disease people have, why they have it, and how itâs treated is changing. Yet, the golden age of heart science is only just beginning. And with treatments of heart disease altering the very definitions of human life and death, there is no better time to look at the present and future of heart disease, the doctors and nurses who treat it, the patients and caregivers who live with it, and the stories they hold close to their chests. More people die of heart disease than any other disease in the world and when any form of heart disease progresses, it can result in the development of heart failure. Heart failure affects millions and can affect anyone at anytime, a child recovering from a viral infection, a woman who has just given birth or a cancer patient receiving chemotherapy. Yet new technology to treat heart failure is fundamentally changing just what it means to be human. Mechanical pumps can be surgically sown into patientsâ hearts and when patients with these pumps get really sick, sometimes they donât need a doctor or a surgeonâthey need a mechanic. In State of the Heart, the journey to rid the world of heart disease is shown to be reflective of the journey of medical science at large. We are learning not only that women have as much heart disease as men, but that the type of heart disease women experience is diametrically different from that in men. We are learning that heart disease and cancer may have more in common than we could have imagined. And we are learning how human evolution itself may have led to the epidemic of heart disease. In understanding how our knowledge of the heart evolved, State of the Heart traces the twisting and turning road that science has takenâfilled with potholes and blind turnsâall the way back to its very origin.
The Heart
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Author : N. Boyadjian
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
The Heart written by N. Boyadjian and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Heart categories.
The Curious History Of Dating
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Author : Nichi Hodgson
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2017-01-26
The Curious History Of Dating written by Nichi Hodgson and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-26 with Humor categories.
A LIGHT-HEARTED, INTIMATE AND EMPHATICALLY FEMINIST HISTORY OF DATING 'A new approach to romance . . . The heroines of Regency novels could teach today's young women a trick or two' Sunday Times 'Entertaining and well-researched' The Lady 'Pacey, intelligent and authoritative with bags of wit' Law Gazette 'A whistle-stop tour of dating through history' History Extra What if Mr Darcy had simply been able to swipe right? Dating has never been easy. The road to true love has always been rutted with heartbreak, but do we have it any easier today? How did Victorians 'come out'? How did love blossom in war-torn Europe? And why did 80s' video-dating never take off? Bursting with little-known facts and tantalising tales of lovelorn men and besotted women, Nichi Hodgson's intriguing history of amorous relationships, from enamoured Georgians to frenziedly swiping millennials (and everyone in between) may leave you grateful that you live - and love - today.
The Matter Of The Heart
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Author : Thomas Morris
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2017-06-01
The Matter Of The Heart written by Thomas Morris and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-01 with Medical categories.
'Thrilling... The “dizzying” story of heart surgery is every bit as important as that of the nuclear, computer or rocket ages. And now it has been given the history it deserves' James McConnachie, Sunday Times For thousands of years the human heart remained the deepest of mysteries; both home to the soul and an organ too complex to touch, let alone operate on. Then, in the late nineteenth century, medics began going where no one had dared go before. In eleven landmark operations, Thomas Morris tells us stories of triumph, reckless bravery, swaggering arrogance, jealousy and rivalry, and incredible ingenuity, from the trail-blazing ‘blue baby’ procedure to the first human heart transplant. The Matter of the Heart gives us a view over the surgeon’s shoulder, showing us the heart’s inner workings and failings. It describes both a human story and a history of risk-taking that has ultimately saved millions of lives.