Sandeep Jauhar argues that doctors need to devote more attention to how factors like unhappy relationships and work stress influence heart disease…” - The New York Times “This captivating investigation deftly communicates the beauty, mystery, and scientific wonder of the human heart.” - Library Journal “Poignant and chattily erudite, Heart shuttles between scholarship and memoir to relate this continuing epic, the uneasy companionship between humans and our most metaphorized organ” - Wall Street Journal
“Jauhar is thoughtful, self-reflective, and profoundly respectful of doctors and patients alike readers will respond by opening their own hearts a little bit, to both grief and wonder.” - Publishers Weekly(Starred Review) “Both primer and ode, Heart is a fascinating education for those of us who harbor this most hallowed organ but know little about it.” - The Washington Post “Chock-full of absorbing tales that infuse fresh air into a topic that is often relegated to textbooks or metaphors about pumps, plumbing or love.” - The New York Times Book Review Affecting, engaging, and beautifully written, Heart: A History takes the full measure of the only organ that can move itself. He also confronts the limits of medical technology, arguing that future progress will depend more on how we choose to live than on the devices we invent. Jauhar deftly braids these tales of discovery, hubris, and sorrow with moving accounts of his family’s history of heart ailments and the patients he’s treated over many years.
And we encounter Wilson Greatbatch, who saved millions by inventing the pacemaker-by accident. Walton Lillehei, who connected a patient’s circulatory system to a healthy donor’s, paving the way for the heart-lung machine. He introduces us to Daniel Hale Williams, the African American doctor who performed the world’s first open heart surgery in Gilded Age Chicago. 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.ĭeftly 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. The bestselling author of Intern and Doctored tells the story of the thing that makes us tick… An Amazon Best of the Month for September and one of Amazon’s Most Anticipated Fall Booksįor 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.
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