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Bezig met laden... De man met het gebroken hart een ontdekkingsreis langs hart en vatendoor Rob Dunn
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. I really like these types of books: science-based, anecdote-laden, medical in nature. I was excited to pick this one up, but about half-way through I started to lose interest. Maybe it was the pacing, or perhaps it was just Dunn's writing style. Occasionally, this leisurely, educational stroll through the history of cardiac science had me checking my own pulse to ensure I was still awake. The best way I can describe the experience of reading this book is to say that it's like being at a dinner party and listening to people regale you with anecdotes of scientific breakthroughs. But like at any such gathering, there are stories that captivate, and stories that bore... sometimes the tales are either overly long or a little too repetitive. That said, the moments of revelation and profound insight into the heart's mysteries were intriguing. I just wish there'd been more of them. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
"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"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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As a nurse, I took care of a lot of cardiac babies, including those with Tetralogy of Fallot & the Blalock surgery. I didn't know where that had come from.
After the chapters on the developments in heart surgery, the author tackles the topic of coronary artery disease, including the lack of studies of the stent procedure vs. doing nothing.
The study of birds - and other species - and their maximum lifetime heartbeats was intriguing. Maybe we can't find a fountain of youth after all. ( )