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The Man Who Touched His Own Heart by Rob Dunn is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Man Who Touched His Own Heart about?
**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 nature in the process.Thought of as the seat of our soul, then as a mysteriously animated object, the heart is still more a mystery than it is understood. Why do most animals only get one billion beats? (And how did modern humans get to over two billion-effectively letting us live out two lives?) Why are sufferers of gingivitis more likely to have heart attacks? Why do we often undergo expensive procedures when cheaper ones are just as effective? What do Da Vinci, Mary Shelley, and contemporary Egyptian archaeologists...
Who reads The Man Who Touched His Own Heart?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Rob Dunn
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Medical, Medicine
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