{"product_id":"heart-a-history","title":"Heart: A History","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eHeart: A History\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eSandeep Jauhar\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780374168650\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eFarrar, Straus and Giroux\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2018\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003e1\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eIntern\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDoctored\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of the thing that makes us tick\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor 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 \u003ci\u003eHeart: A History\u003c\/i\u003e, it was only recently that we demolished age-old taboos and devised the transformative procedures that have changed the way we live. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDeftly 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, \u003ci\u003eHeart: A History \u003c\/i\u003etakes the full measure of the only organ that can move itself.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Heart: A History | Sandeep Jauhar | Hardcover | 9780374168650 | Used: Like New | Wellness 1639224","offer_id":48743267827864,"sku":"1639224","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/91WtHFnbvLL.jpg?v=1773865048","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/heart-a-history","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}