The Curious History of the Heart : A Cultural and Scientific Journey.

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
I The Ancient Heart
1 The Heart Means Life
2 Heart and Soul
3 The Heart and God
4 An Emotional Heart
5 Ancient Understanding of the Physical Heart
6 Ancient Heart Disease
II The Heart Goes Into the Darkness and Comes Out in the Light
7 The Dark Ages
8 The Islamic Golden Age
9 The Viking Cold Hjarta
10 American Heart Sacrifice
11 The Heart Renaissance
12 Hither and Thither
III heART
13 The Heart in Art
14 The Heart in Literature
15 The Heart in Music

16 Heart Rituals
IV Heart 101
17 The Pump
18 Heart Anatomy
19 Heart Sounds
20 The Color of Blood
21 The Heart's Electrical System
22 What Is an EKG?
23 What Is Blood Pressure?
24 What Is Heart Failure?
25 What Is "Having a Coronary"?
26 Sex, Race, and Ethnicity in Heart Disease
27 Sudden Death of an Athlete
28 The Word Heart
V The Modern Heart
29 Enlightenment and the Age of Revolution
30 The Twentieth Century and Heart Disease
31 Aspirin
32 The Twentieth Century and Heart Surgery
33 The Heart Now
34 The Broken Heart Syndrome

35 The Heart-Brain Connection
36 The Future Heart
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Further Reading
Index