Darwin's Heart (eBook)

Morris Weiss Jr MD FACP FACC (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
122 Seiten
AuthorHouse (Verlag)
979-8-8230-0498-5 (ISBN)

Infos

A middle-aged man dying of heart failure consents to an experimental artificial heart. The post-op course was stormy with no improvement. His wish was to die at home, so he was discharged. At the funeral, his wife presented the doctors with a lawsuit, saying "e;You buried my husband without his heart."e; The doctors found his heart, put it back in his chest, and the lawsuit vanished. This case had a profound effect on the author's thinking and conduct as a physician cardiologist. Dr. Weiss realized doctors focused on the heart as a pump, rather than the symbolic heart and what it represents. This book surveys how a host of ancient cultures, religions, and civilizations envisioned the homo sapiens heart before the advent of modern medicine, and how that understanding will preserve our species.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.4.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Weitere Themen ► Bioinformatik
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Innere Medizin ► Kardiologie / Angiologie
• Schlagworte: Darwin’s Heart • experimental procedure • heart • Heart disease • Medical History • Morris Weiss
• ISBN-13: 979-8-8230-0498-5 / 9798823004985