The Beat of Life
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The Beat of Life

A surgeon reveals the secrets of the heart

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Beat of Life

A surgeon reveals the secrets of the heart

About this book

The heart is our most important – and perhaps most mysterious – organ.

Every day it pumps 9000 litres of blood and beats around 100,000 times. But the heart is more than just a pump. In all major human cultures, it is seen as the source of love, sympathy, joy, courage, strength and wisdom. Why?

Having witnessed the extraordinary complexity and unpredictability of human hearts in the operating theatre – each one individual in its make-up, like a fingerprint – heart surgeon Reinhard Friedl went on a search for answers. He examined closely the latest findings in neurocardiology and psychocardiology, and in The Beat of Life he shares his discoveries, using riveting personal stories to illustrate the complex relationship between the heart, the brain and the psyche.

'Reinhard Friedl explains why love resides in the heart, whether it can be broken by grief and why heart and brain form a unit' Kleine Presse Graz

'Raising awareness, contemplating, reflecting – that is the true intention of this book on the heart' Neu-Ulmer Zeitung

'A well-balanced blend of facts and personal stories' Moment by Moment

'This book has inspired me from the first page to the last… readable and endearing' Yoga Journal

'You will learn something about what keeps your life going, from the technical to the spiritual, and appreciate it even more' Psychiatric Times

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Information

Publisher
Hero
Year
2021
Print ISBN
9781800316058
eBook ISBN
9781800316065
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Medicine Biographies

INDEX

A Brief History of Time (Stephen Hawking) 218
adrenal glands 79–80, 153
adrenaline 79–80, 153, 177, 195, 259
Alexander, Eben (Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Afterlife) 6, 160
American Heart Association 240
amygdala 103, 227
anaesthetic 40, 45, 70, 170–1, 202, 259
anaesthetist 4, 31, 39, 99, 144, 146, 254
Anahata (Sanskrit) 119
angina pectoris 4, 11, 103
antibiotic treatment 54
anticoagulants 39, 52
antidepressants 103–4, 109, 203
antiseptic 65
aorta 6, 8, 27–8, 30, 31–7, 64, 139, 144, 162, 256, 258
aorta descendens (descending aorta) 142–3
aortic arch 37, 142
aortic clamp 34–6, 38
aortic valve 32, 35
aphrodisiacs 195–6
apoplexy 103
Aristotle 4, 74
arrhythmia 4–5, 11, 61, 75, 200–1, 204, 208–9, 234
arteria subclavia (subclavian artery) 31, 142–3
arteries 7–8, 22, 24, 31–2, 35, 37, 61–2, 78, 143–4, 187, 191, 224, 253 see also brain arteries; coronary arteries; lung arteries
arteriosclerosis 61, 103, 108
artery calcification (plaque) 61
artificial heart 2, 4, 51–2, 252–7 see also heart tran...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Revealing the Heart
  6. The Six-Cylinder Bio-Turbine
  7. Heart on the Table
  8. The Bleeding Heart
  9. One Heart after Another
  10. Chimeras of the Heart
  11. The Colourful Neuroshow
  12. Heart Tone
  13. Wisdom from the Heart
  14. Hearts in Sync
  15. The Heart in the Incubator
  16. What the Heart Can Feel
  17. Danse Macabre
  18. The Heart in the Eyes
  19. Loving
  20. The Lonely Heart
  21. The Big Picture
  22. Heart Consciousness
  23. Heart Encounter
  24. Farewell to the Artificial Heart
  25. Homo cor
  26. Acknowledgements
  27. Endnotes
  28. Index
  29. About the Author

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