Journey Into the Heart: A Tale of Pioneering Doctors and Their Race to Transform Cardiovascular Medicine
- ISBN-10
- 1592402658
- ISBN-13
- 9781592402656
- Category
- Medical
- Pages
- 386
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Author
- David Monagan
Description
The twentieth-century journey to understand the human heart was a saga on a par with the race to the moon. Physicians have evolved from fearing to even touch a living human heart to rebuilding and transplanting hearts. Today heart attacks can often be sto
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