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01943aam a2200337Ii 4500 001 E99F69D6939111E7A673E95E97128E48 003 SILO 005 20170907010029 008 170605t20172017enkaf e b 001 0 eng 020 $a 1847923925 020 $a 9781847923929 020 $a 1847923917 020 $a 9781847923912 035 $a (OCoLC)988902342 040 $a AU@ $b eng $e rda $c AU@ $d OCLCO $d YDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d CDX $d OCLCO $d SILO 050 4 $a RD598 M5796 2017 060 4 $a WG 169 $b M875m 2017 100 1 $a Morris, Thomas, $e author. 245 14 $a The matter of the heart : $b a history of the heart in eleven operations / $c Thomas Morris. 264 1 $a London : $b The Bodley Head, an imprint of Vintage Publishing, $c 2017. 300 $a 414 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations (some colour) ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-401) and index. 520 $a For thousands of years the human heart remained the deepest of mysteries; both home to the soul and an organ too complex to touch, let alone operate on. Then, in the late nineteenth century, medics began going where no one had dared go before. The following decades saw the mysteries of the heart exposed, thanks to pioneering surgeons, brave patients and even sacrificial dogs. In eleven landmark operations, Thomas Morris tells us stroies of triumph, reckless bravery, swaggering arrogance, jealousy and rivalry, and incredible ingenuity: the trail-blazing 'blue baby' procedure that transformed wheezing infants into pink, healthy children; the first human heart transplant, which made headline news around the globe. 650 0 $a Surgery $x History. 650 0 $a Heart $x History. $x History. 650 0 $a Heart $x Diseases. 650 0 $a Human anatomy. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200204024519.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E99F69D6939111E7A673E95E97128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search