Poignant and chattily erudite." -Laura Kolbe, The Wall Street Journal "Jauhar's writing blends pathos and playfulness and is suffused with an elegiac tension, haunted as it is by the specter of his own mortality. His latest book, "Heart: A History," is something of a "Paradiso," pointing to the field's brightest and noblest stars while recognizing just how much darkness is still left in the firmament. Affecting, engaging, and beautifully written, Heart: A History takes the full measure of the only organ that can move itself.Īn Amazon Best of the Month for September One of Amazon's Most Anticipated Fall Books " The cardiologist Sandeep Jauhar has become a Dante of modern medicine, with his earlier memoirs, "Intern" (2008) and "Doctored" (2014), casting the progress from training to career as a path studded with suffering, indignity and ethical hazard. 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. 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. And we encounter Wilson Greatbatch, who saved millions by inventing the pacemaker-by accident.
Walton Lillehei, who connected a patient's circulatory system to a healthy donor's, paving the way for the heart-lung machine.
He introduces us to Daniel Hale Williams, the African American doctor who performed the world's first open heart surgery in Gilded Age Chicago. 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. 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. 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.
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