The Curious History of the Heart : : A Cultural and Scientific Journey / / Vincent M. Figueredo.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
• VerfasserIn: Figueredo, Vincent M.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 45 figures

For much of recorded history, people considered the heart to be the most important organ in the body. In cultures around the world, the heart—not the brain—was believed to be the location of intelligence, memory, emotion, and the soul. Over time, views on the purpose of the heart have transformed as...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• Figure 1
• Figure 2
• Figure 3
• 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