The Man Who Touched His Own Heart: True Tales of Science, Surgery, and Mystery

by Rob Dunn

Book Overview

The secret history of our most vital organ: the human heart.

The Man Who Touched His Own Heart tells the raucous, gory, mesmerizing story of the heart, from the first "explorers" who dug up cadavers and plumbed their hearts' chambers, through the first heart surgeries -- which had to be completed in three minutes before death arrived -- to heart transplants and the latest medical efforts to prolong our hearts' lives, almost defying...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316225797
• ISBN13: 9780316225793
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.5"