Broken hearts : the tangled history of cardiac care /
David S. Jones.
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2013.
- xiii, 319 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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.