Jones, David S.

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.

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Myocardial Infarction--physiopathology.
Atherosclerosis--physiopathology.
Cardiovascular Surgical Procedures--adverse effects.
Myocardial Infarction--complications.
Postoperative Complications--etiology.

RC685.I6

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