The Open Heart Club: A Story about Birth and Death and Cardiac Surgery

by Gabriel Brownstein

Book Overview

This history of the heart and cardiac medicine--as told by a writer with a congenital heart defect--ponders issues of mortality, empathy, and the things that make us human.

Born in 1966 with a congenital heart defect known as the tetralogy of Fallot, Gabriel Brownstein entered the world just as doctors were learning to operate on conditions like his. He received a life-saving surgery at five years old, and since then has ridden wave...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1610399498
• ISBN13: 9781610399494
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: PublicAffairs
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.6"