Heart--A History
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Hall, Joan Lord
hallucinations
Hamlet (Shakespeare)
hardening of the arteries, see atherosclerosis
Harvard University
Harvey, William
Hawaii
heart attacks/myocardial infarctions; risk factors for; sudden death resulting from, see sudden cardiac death; survival of; symptoms of; see also cardiac arrest
heart block
heart cells
heart failure; end-stage; transplants for; treatments for; see also congestive heart failure
heart-healthy lifestyle
heart-lung machines; surgical alternatives prior to invention of
heart transplantation
heparin
herbal supplements
hereditary disorders
Hertz, Carl Helmuth
high blood pressure, see hypertension/high blood pressure
Hildegard of Bingen
Hill, Luther
Hinduism
HIV
homeostasis
Honshu (Japan)
hopelessness
Hopkinson, Mary
hormones
hospice
House Appropriations Health Subcommittee
Houston
Howard University
Hugo, Victor
Hunter, John
hypertension/high blood pressure; as cardiovascular risk factor; emotional/psychosocial factors in; methods for control of
hypothermia
IBM Corporation
iliac artery
Illness as Metaphor (Sontag)
immigrants
immune system
India; partition of
infections; postsurgical; of transplant patients
infectious diseases
inferior vena cava
inflammation
insulin resistance
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
ischemia
Israel
Italy; Renaissance
Ithaca (New York)
Jalife, José
Japan; immigrants in U.S. from; in World War II
Jarvik, Robert
Jarvik-7 artificial heart
Jauhar, Mohan
Jauhar, Pia
Jauhar, Rajiv
Jauhar, Sonia
Jefferson Medical College
Jesus, Sacred Heart of
Jewish Hospital (Louisville)
Johns Hopkins University
Johnson, Jacqueline
Journal of the American Medical Association
Journal of Thoracic Surgery
Joyce, James
Jude, James
Julian, Desmond
Justus, Wilhelm
Kanpur (India)
Kanpur Agricultural College
Karp, Haskell
Kent (England)
Kentucky
kidney failure
kidneys; artificial
King of Hearts (Miller)
Kirklin, John
Klinische Wochenschrift
Knickerbocker, Guy
Koch, Robert
Kolff, Willem
Kölliker, Rudolf Von
Kouwenhoven, William
Lancet, The
language problems
learned helplessness
Le Fanu, James
left anterior descending (LAD) artery
Leonardo da Vinci
leprosy
leukemia
Lewis, John
lidocaine
Life magazine
lifestyle
Lifestyle Heart Trial
“Life You Save May Be Your Own, The” (O’Connor)
Lillehei, C. Walton
Lima (Peru)
lipoprotein(a)
liver
Lolita (Nabokov)
London (England)
London Daily Mirror
London Medical Society
Lost Art of Healing, The (Lown)
Louisville (Kentucky)
Lower, Richard
low-fat diets
Lown, Bernard
Loy, Una
Lund, University of
lung cancer
macrophages
MacWilliam, John Alexander
magnets
“Maintenance of Life During Experimental Occlusion of the Pulmonary Artery Followed by Survival, The” (Gibbon)
Malaria Control in War Areas, U.S. Office of
Malpighi, Marcello
Marcus Aurelius
Marmot, Michael
Massachusetts, University of
Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston)
Mayo Clinic
Mayo-Gibbon oxygenator
McDonald, Abby
McGill University
McIntire, Admiral Ross
McLean, Jay
McMichael, John
McQuarrie, Irvine
Meadors, Gilcin
Mediators of Atherosclerosis in South Asians Living in America (MASALA) study
meditation
Mediterranean diet
Medtronic
memory deficits
mental lassitude
metaphorical heart; history of
metastatic cancer
Miami, American Heart Association conference in
midazolam
Middle Ages
Miller, G. Wayne
mind-body interactions
Mines, George
Minneapolis
Minneapolis Tribune
Minnesota; University of
Minnesota Medicine
minority groups
Mirowski, Michel
misdiagnosis
mitral valve
Montgomery (Alabama)
Montreal
morbidity
Morgagni, Giovanni Battista
morphine drip
Morristown (New Jersey)
mortality rates; for cardiac wounds; reduction in
Mountin, Joseph
Mount Zion Hospital (San Francisco)
Mower, Morton
Müller, Heinrich
multi-organ failure
multivariate analysis
Munch, Edvard
Muslims
Mustard, William
myocardial infarctions, see heart attacks/myocardial infarctions
myocardial wire
myopericarditis
Nafis, Ibn al-
National Guard
National Heart Act (1948)
National Heart Institute (NHI)
National Institutes of Health
National Society of Professional Engineers
natural catastrophes
natural healers
Nature
nausea
negative affectivity; see also anxiety; depression
neuroscience
New Delhi (India)
New England Journal of Medicine
New York City; hospitals in (see also Bellevue Hospital); 9/11 terrorist attack on
New York Times
nightmares
Niigata Prefecture (Japan)
9/11 terrorist attack
nitroglycerin
Nixon, Richard M.
Nobel Prize; in Physiology and Medicine
Normandy, landing of Allied troops in
North Dakota
Northwestern University Medical School
Null, Gary
nutraceuticals
Nyström, Gunnar
NYU Medical Center (New York City)
obesity
O’Connor, Flannery
“On Dynamic Equilibrium in the Heart” (Mines)
“On the Nature of Turbulence” (Ruelle and Takens)
open-heart surgery; alternatives to; with cross-circulation; with heart-lung machines
Oregon, University of
organ harvesting
organ rejection
Ornish, Dean
“O
roya fever”
Oscar Mayer Company
oscilloscopes
Osler, William; Harveian Oration of
oxygenation
pacemakers; external; natural
Padua, University of
Pagenstecher, Sanitatsrath
pain; absence of response to; chest; of implanted defibrillator shocks
Pakistan
palpitations; see also arrhythmias; ventricular fibrillation
parasympathetic nervous system
Parkinson’s disease
Pavlovian response
Pearl Harbor, Japanese bombing of
Pearson, Karl
Pennsylvania; University of
pericarditis
pericardium
Persia
Peru
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital (Boston)
“phantom shock”
Philadelphia
physical activity, see exercise
placebo effect
Plainview Hospital (Plainview, New York)
plaque; atherosclerotic; visualization of
platelets
Plato
pneumonia
Poland
Popper, Karl
post-traumatic stress disorder
potassium
Prague
precordial thumps
premature ventricular contractions (PVCs)
pressure-volume loops
Prévost, Jean Louis
Princeton University
“Probing the Right Ventricle of the Heart” (Forssmann)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
processed foods
Provident Hospital (Chicago)
Prussian State Library
psychosocial risk factors
Public Broadcasting System (PBS)
Public Health Service, U.S.
pulmonary embolectomy
pulmonary function tests
pulse deficit
“pump head”
Punjab (India)
quality-of-life issues
radio-frequency ablative procedure
Radio Shack
rapamycin
rapid eye movement (REM) sleep
Reconstruction
“reentry”
reflex arc
refractory period
Rehn, Ludwig
REM sleep, see rapid eye movement (REM) sleep
Renaissance
respiratory failure
restitution
resuscitation, see cardiopulmonary resuscitation
Richards, Dickinson
Richter, Curt
Richter scale
risk factors; epidemiology of, see Framingham study; ethnic differences in; psychosocial; of heart attack survivors
Roberts, John Bingham
Rohman, Michael
Roman Catholic Church
Roman Empire
romantic love, heart as locus of
Rome
Romeis, Peter
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
Rosenman, Ray
Ross, Donald
Royal Infirmary (Edinburgh)
Ruelle, David
Russia
Sacred Heart of Jesus
St. Louis; Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital (Houston)
St. Petersburg (Russia)
Salem (Massachusetts)
Salt Lake City
San Francisco Bay Area
Sauerbruch, Ferdinand
schizophrenia
Schmidt, Pamela
Schneider, Richard
Scientific American
Scotland
Sears, Roebuck
sedatives
sedentary lifestyle
selection bias
self-experimentation
Separation (Munch)
septal defects: atrial (ASDs); ventricular (VSDs)
September 11, 2001, terrorist attack, see 9/11
Seroquel
Servetus, Michael
Seuse, Heinrich
Shakespeare, William
Shaw, Laura
shock
shocks, electrical, see defibrillation
shortness of breath
Shumway, Norman
Siddiqui, Mohammed
Siemens echocardiogram machine
Sigmamotor milk pump
Sikhs
Sinai Hospital (Baltimore)
Sinemet
sinoatrial node
sleep disorders
smoking; as cardiovascular risk factor; rates of
snakes
Snow, John
Snow White (fairy tale)
sonar, see ultrasound
Sones, Mason
Sontag, Susan
South Africa
South Asians, prevalence of heart disease among
spiral waves
Stanford University
startle response
statins
stents
Sterling, Peter
Stevenson, Lynne Warner
stimulant drugs
stomach ulcers
strokes; risk factors for
sudden cardiac death; emotional stress causing; prevention of, see defibrillators; ventricular fibrillation as major cause of
superior vena cava
supplements, dietary
surgical hypothermia
Sweden
Switzerland
sympathetic nervous system
syphilis
Syracuse University
Syria
tachycardia
Takens, Floris
takotsubo cardiomyopathy
tamponade
“Termination of Malignant Ventricular Arrhythmias with an Implanted Automatic Defibrillator in Human Beings” (Mirowski)
Texas Instruments
Thailand
Threefold Life of Man, The (Böhme)
thrifty genes
thrombosis
Time magazine
tissue death
Tobacco Institute
Toronto, University of
transposition of the great arteries
treadmill stress test
Trendelenburg, Friedrich
Trost, Dr.
Truman, Harry
tuberculosis
Tufts University
Tulane University
turbulence
type A personality
ulcers
ultrasound; see also echocardiograms
Ulysses (Joyce)
Unger, Ernst
United Kingdom, incidence of heart disease in
United States: age at first heart attack in; artificial heart programs in; cardiac research in; catheters manufactured in; congenital heart defects in; cost of medical devices in; defibrillators implanted in; epidemiological studies in; first residency program in; heart transplants in; incidence of heart disease in; mortality from heart disease in; stent use in; see also specific states and municipalities
University Hospital (Zurich)
“Use of Ultrasonic Reflectoscope for the Continuous Recording of the Movements of Heart Walls” (Edler and Hertz)
Utah, University of, Medical Center
vaccinations, opposition to
Valium
Vanderbilt University
Variety Club Heart Hospital (Minneapolis)
vascular inflammation
vasopressin antagonists
vegetarian diet
vena cava
ventilators
ventricles; of artificial heart; congenital defects of; electrophysiology of; implantable devices attached to; premature contractions of; survival of injuries to; see also ventricular fibrillation
ventricular assist devices (LVADs)
ventricular fibrillation; animal studies of; as major cause of sudden cardiac death; see also defibrillators
ventricular septal defects (VSDs)
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sp; verruga peruana
Vesalius, Andreas
Veterans Affairs Hospital (Buffalo, New York)
Vibrio cholerae
Victoria, Queen of England
Vietnam War
vigilance
voltage
voodoo death
“‘Voodoo’ Death” (Cannon)
“vulnerable period”
Wake Forest University
Wang, Thomas
Wangensteen, Owen
Warm Springs (Georgia)
Washington, D.C.
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Washkansky, Louis
Watson, Cecil
Watson, Thomas
Wayne State University
White, Paul Dudley
Whitehall study
Wilkes College
Williams, Daniel Hale
World Trade Center, 9/11 terrorist attack on
World War I
World War II
X-rays
Yalta Conference
yoga
York (England)
Zionism
Zoll, Paul
Zurich (Switzerland)
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Doctored
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A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Epigraph
Prologue: CT Scan
Introduction: The Engine of Life
PART I: METAPHOR
1. A Small Heart
2. Prime Mover
PART II: MACHINE
3. Clutch
4. Dynamo
5. Pump
6. Nut
7. Stress Fractures
8. Pipes
9. Wires
10. Generator
11. Replacement Parts
PART III: MYSTERY
12. Vulnerable Heart
13. A Mother’s Heart
14. Compensatory Pause
Notes
Supplementary Reading
Acknowledgments
Index
Also by Sandeep Jauhar
A Note About the Author
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