Heart: A History: Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2019

ISBN-13: 9781786075734 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 288 str.

Sandeep Jauhar

Opis

A doctor's inspiring obsession with the heart, combining history, gripping scenes from the operating theatre and a moving personal story

'Jauhar weaves his own personal and family story into his history of the heart...very effectively... This gives a certain dramatic tension to the book, as it tells the fascinating and rather wonderful history of cardiology.' -Henry Marsh, New Statesman A Mail on Sunday Book of the YearThe heart lies at the centre of life. For cardiologist Sandeep Jauhar it is an obsession.In this fascinating history he interweaves gripping scenes from the operating theatre with the moving tale of his family's history of heart problems - from the death of his grandfather to the ominous signs of how he himself might die.Jauhar looks at the pioneers who risked patients' lives and their own careers, and confronts the limits of medical technology, arguing that how we live is more important than any device or drug we may invent. Heart is the all-encompassing story of the engine of life.

Recenzje

'A book of unusual depth and richness about a subject that concerns us all...Heart: A history is elegantly conceived and still more elegantly executed...Sandeep Jauhar writes with a vital, pulsating energy.'

TLS

O autorze

Sandeep Jauhar is director of the Heart Failure Program at Long Island Jewish Medical Center. He is the New York Times bestselling author of three medical memoirs and a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times.