Includes bibliographical references (p. [246]-248) and index.
Contents:
The human heart: an overview -- The anatomised heart: understanding the pump -- The renaissance heart: the drawings of Leonardo da Vinci -- The sacred heart: Christian symbolism -- The emotional heart: mind body and soul -- The transplanted heart: surgery in the 1960s -- The beating heart: same song -- different rhythm -- The broken heart: the story of 'Heartbreak Hotel' -- Sick at heart: appetite versus technology in the twenty-first century.
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