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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Since the Middle Ages, the heart has symbolized the full range of human emotions.
Chapter 3: Emotions influence the heart, sometimes causing emotionally driven heart damage.
Chapter 4: Werner Forssmann’s bold, risky self-experiment led to Nobel Prize–winning breakthroughs in cardiology worldwide.
Chapter 5: Open-heart surgery was deemed impossible before cross-circulation surgical procedures were ever created.
Chapter 6: Until the 1950s, congenital heart disease remained a major health challenge, before the first cross-circulation surgeries emerged at last.
Chapter 7: During the 1950s, lifestyle factors were recognized as major contributors to the overall risk of heart problems.
Chapter 8: It’s widely known that diet and exercise influence heart disease, but psychosocial factors contribute as well.
Chapter 9: Fatty arterial plaque posed a major health problem until treatments emerged in the 1970s.
Description
Heart (2018) examines an organ that has baffled humanity for centuries. By delving into the history of the heart, both from a biological and a cultural perspective, it explains why the heart plays such an important role in human history.
Who Should Listen
- Medical students
- Patients with health issues affecting the heart
- Historians of science