Publisher Description
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. As cardiologist and bestselling author Sandeep Jauhar shows in The Heart, it was only recently that we demolished age-old taboos and devised the transformative procedures that changed the way we live. Deftly alternating between 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, braiding those tales of discovery, hubris, and sorrow with moving accounts of the patients he's treated over the years. He also confronts the limits of medical technology, boldly arguing that future progress will depend more on how we choose to live than on the devices we invent. Affecting and engaging, The Heart takes the full measure of the only organ that can move itself.
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About Sandeep Jauhar
Sandeep Jauhar is the bestselling author of several acclaimed books, including Intern, Doctored, and Heart: A History, which was a finalist for the 2019 Wellcome Book Prize; was named a best book of 2018 by the London Mail on Sunday, Science Friday, and the Los Angeles Public Library; and was a PBS NewsHour/New York Times book club pick. A practicing physician, he writes writes regularly for the opinion section of the New York Times. His TED Talk on the emotional heart was one of the ten most-watched TED Talks of 2019.
About Patrick Lawlor
Patrick Lawlor, an award-winning narrator, is also an accomplished stage actor, director, and combat choreographer. He has worked extensively off Broadway and has been an actor and stuntman in both film and television. He has been an Audie Award finalist multiple times and has garnered several AudioFile Earphones Awards, a Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Award, and many starred audio reviews from Library Journal and Kirkus Reviews.