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Author Jones, David S. (David Shumway)

Title Broken hearts [electronic resource] : the tangled history of cardiac care / David S. Jones.

Imprint Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2013.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xiii, 319 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Myocardial infarction.
Atherosclerosis.
Cardiovascular system -- Surgery.
Surgery -- Complications.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9781421408019 (hdbk. : alk. paper)
1421408015 (hdbk. : alk. paper)
9781421408026 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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