The bestselling author of
Intern and
Doctored, "a Dante of modern medicine" (Laura Kolbe,
The Wall Street Journal), tells the story of the thing that makes us tick.
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 the cardiologist and bestselling author Sandeep Jauhar shows in Heart: A History, it was only recently that we demolished age-old taboos and devised the transformative procedures that have changed the way we live.
Deftly 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. Affecting, engaging, and beautifully written, Heart: A History takes the full measure of the only organ that can move itself.
• For readers of Atul Gawande
• A pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club, Now Read This and one of "Science Friday's" (NPR) Best Science Books of the Year
