The Matter of the Heart: A History of the Heart in Eleven Operations

by Thomas Morris

Book Overview

An eye-opening and heroic story of pioneering heart surgeons, structured around eleven operations.

For thousands of years the human heart remained the deepest of mysteries; both home to the soul and an organ too complex to touch, let alone operate on.

Then, in the late nineteenth century, medics began going where no one had dared go before. The following decades saw the mysteries of the heart exposed, thanks to pioneering...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 125011716X
• ISBN13: 9781250117168
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.4"