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Broken Hearts:

The Tangled History of Cardiac Care
  • ISBN-13: 9781421408019
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By David S. Jones
  • Price: AUD $86.99
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  • Local release date: 14/05/2013
  • Format: Hardback 336 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: History of medicine [MBX]
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Still the leading cause of death worldwide, heart disease challenges researchers, clinicians, and patients alike. Each day, thousands of patients and their doctors make decisions about coronary angioplasty and bypass surgery. In Broken Hearts David S. Jones sheds light on the nature and quality of those decisions. He describes the debates over what causes heart attacks and the efforts to understand such unforeseen complications of cardiac surgery as depression, mental fog, and stroke.Why do doctors and patients overestimate the effectiveness and underestimate the dangers of medical interventions, especially when doing so may lead to the overuse of medical therapies? To answer this question, Jones explores the history of cardiology and cardiac surgery in the United States and probes the ambiguities and inconsistencies in medical decision making. Based on extensive reviews of medical literature and archives, this historical perspective on medical decision making and risk highlights personal, professional, and community outcomes.

List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: An Embarrassment of Riches
Part I: Theory and Therapy
1. The Mysteries of Heart Attacks
2. The Case for Plaque Rupture
3. The Case against Plaque Rupture
4. Learning by Doing
5. The Plaque Rupture Consensus
6. Rupture Therapeutics
7. Therapeutic Ruptures
8. Fear and Unpredictability
Part II: Complications
9. Surgical Ambition and Fear
10. Suffering Cerebrums
11. Deliriogenic Personalities
12. The Case of the Missing Complications
13. Selective Inattention
14. The Cerebral Complications of Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery
15. A Taxonomy of Inattention
16. Competition's Complications
Conclusion: Puzzles and Prospects
Notes
Bibliography
Index

""Broken Hearts is a captivating study of the history of cardiology. By moving away from the long-standing tendency to frame the history of cardiology as a progress-narrative, this book makes a great addition to the emerging body of literature that adopts a critical stance towards cardiac care...""

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