Broken hearts : the tangled history of cardiac care - Jones, David S. (David Shumway) (Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013)
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Myocardial Infarction -- physiopathology; Atherosclerosis -- physiopathology; Cardiovascular Surgical Procedures -- adverse effects; Myocardial Infarction -- complications; Postoperative Complications -- etiology