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Man Who Touched His Own Heart: True Tales of Science, Surgery, and Mystery
The secret history of our most vital organ: the human heart. The Man Who Touched His Own...
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The secret history of our most vital organ: the human heart. 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. Thought of as the seat of our soul, then as a mysteriously animated object, the heart is still more a mystery than it is understood. Why do most animals only get one billion beats? (And how did modern humans get to over two billion, effectively letting us live out two lives?) Why are sufferers of gingivitis more likely to have heart attacks? Why do we often undergo expensive procedures when cheaper ones are just as effective? What do Da Vinci, Mary Shelley, and contemporary Egyptian archaeologists have in common? And what does it really feel like to touch your own heart, or to have someone else's beating inside your chest? 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.
Author: Rob Dunn
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Published: 02/03/2015
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.30w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780316225793
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 10/01/2014 pg. 106
Booklist 12/01/2014 pg. 17
Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2014
Publishers Weekly 12/01/2014
Discover 03/01/2015 pg. 13
Choice 08/01/2015
About the Author
Rob Dunn is a professor in the Department of Applied Ecology at North Carolina State University and in the Natural History Museum of Denmark at the University of Copenhagen. He is the author of The Man Who Touched His Own Heart, The Wild Life of Our Bodies, and Every Living Thing, and his magazine work is published widely, including in National Geographic, Natural History, New Scientist, Scientific American, and Smithsonian. He has a PhD from the University of Connecticut and was a Fulbright Fellow. He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Author: Rob Dunn
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Published: 02/03/2015
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.30w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780316225793
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 10/01/2014 pg. 106
Booklist 12/01/2014 pg. 17
Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2014
Publishers Weekly 12/01/2014
Discover 03/01/2015 pg. 13
Choice 08/01/2015
About the Author
Rob Dunn is a professor in the Department of Applied Ecology at North Carolina State University and in the Natural History Museum of Denmark at the University of Copenhagen. He is the author of The Man Who Touched His Own Heart, The Wild Life of Our Bodies, and Every Living Thing, and his magazine work is published widely, including in National Geographic, Natural History, New Scientist, Scientific American, and Smithsonian. He has a PhD from the University of Connecticut and was a Fulbright Fellow. He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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