Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Figure 1 xii
4. Figure 2 1
5. Figure 3 2
6. Introduction 3
7. I The Ancient Heart
8. 1 The Heart Means Life 13
9. 2 Heart and Soul 27
10. 3 The Heart and God 33
11. 4 An Emotional Heart 41
12. 5 Ancient Understanding of the Physical Heart 47
13. 6 Ancient Heart Disease 58
14. II The Heart Goes Into the Darkness and Comes Out in the Light
15. 7 The Dark Ages 63
16. 8 The Islamic Golden Age 72
17. 9 The Viking Cold Hjarta 78
18. 10 American Heart Sacrifice 81
19. 11 The Heart Renaissance 88
20. 12 Hither and Thither 98
21. III heART
22. 13 The Heart in Art 109
23. 14 The Heart in Literature 129
24. 15 The Heart in Music 133
25. 16 Heart Rituals 137
26. IV Heart 101
27. 17 The Pump 147
28. 18 Heart Anatomy 151
29. 19 Heart Sounds 157
30. 20 The Color of Blood 161
31. 21 The Heart’s Electrical System 164
32. 22 What Is an EKG? 166
33. 23 What Is Blood Pressure? 172
34. 24 What Is Heart Failure? 176
35. 25 What Is “Having a Coronary”? 179
36. 26 Sex, Race, and Ethnicity in Heart Disease 183
37. 27 Sudden Death of an Athlete 189
38. 28 The Word Heart 192
39. V The Modern Heart
40. 29 Enlightenment and the Age of Revolution 199
41. 30 The Twentieth Century and Heart Disease 209
42. 31 Aspirin 216
43. 32 The Twentieth Century and Heart Surgery 218
44. 33 The Heart Now 226
45. 34 The Broken Heart Syndrome 232
46. 35 The Heart-Brain Connection 237
47. 36 The Future Heart 244
48. Afterword 251
49. Acknowledgments 255
50. Notes 257
51. References 273
52. Further Reading 285
53. Index 291