Broken hearts the tangled history of cardiac care /

Jones, David S.

Broken hearts the tangled history of cardiac care / [electronic resource] : David S. Jones. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2013. - xiii, 319 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The mysteries of heart attacks -- The case for plaque rupture -- The case against plaque rupture -- Learning by doing -- The plaque rupture consensus -- Rupture therapeutics -- Therapeutic ruptures -- Fear and unpredictability -- Surgical ambition and fear -- Suffering cerebrums -- Deliriogenic personalities -- The case of the missing complications -- Selective inattention -- The cerebral complications of coronary artery bypass surgery -- A taxonomy of inattention -- Competition's complications.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9781421408026 (electronic bk.)




Myocardial infarction.
Atherosclerosis.
Cardiovascular system--Surgery.
Surgery--Complications.


Electronic books.

RC685.I6 / J66 2013

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