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List of illustrations -- Foreword / Sir Magdi Yacoub -- Introduction / James Peto -- 1. The human heart : an overview / Louisa Young -- Interview : Sir Terence English -- 2. The anatomised heart : understanding the pump / Jonathan Miller -- Interview : Peter Allinson -- 3. The renaissance heart : the drawings of Leonardo da Vinci / Francis Wells -- Interview : Francis Wells -- 4. The sacred heart : Christian symbolism / Emily Jo Sargent -- Interview : Mike St Maur Sheil -- 5. The emotional heart : mind body and soul / Fay Bound Alberti -- Interview : Martin Elliott -- 6. The transplanted heart : surgery in the 1960s / Ayesha Nathoo -- Interview : Meera Rajan -- 7. The beating heart : same song -- different rhythm / Ted Bianco -- Interview : Gurleen Sharland -- 8. The broken heart : the story of 'Heartbreak Hotel' / Michael Bracewell -- Interview : Chris Rodley -- 9. Sick at heart : appetite versus technology in the twenty-first century / Jon Turney -- About the contributors -- Bibliography -- Index.
Published to mark the opening of Wellcome Collection, this book examines the history of man's understanding of the human heart from the ancient world to the present. The book provides a richly-illustrated account of changes in our perception of what the heart does and what it means.
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