Research Catalog

Title

Heart to heart : the twentieth century battle against cardiac disease : an oral history / Allen B. Weisse.

Author

Weisse, Allen B.

Publication

New Brunswick, N.J. Rutgers University Press, c2002.

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Details

Description

xvii, 415 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

"In Heart to Heart, Dr. Allen B. Weisse presents the first collection of in-depth conversations with some of the world's most renowned cardiologists and surgeons. Weisse's interviews bring a special vitality to the doctors' recollections of the people and events that influenced them, their motivations, their problems, their interactions with their contemporaries, and their hopes and beliefs for the future. Since not every doctor who has made important contributions to the treatment and prevention of heart disease could be interviewed for this volume, Weisse includes a biographical section listing other prominent cardiologists and surgeons as well as a list of recommended reading. This comprehensive history will be a resource for any student of cardiology or general medicine."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Cardiology > History > 20th century
• Cardiologists > Interviews
• Thoracic surgeons > Interviews
• Cardiology > history
• History, 20th Century
• Thoracic Surgery > history

Genre/Form

Interview.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p.403-404) and index.

Contents

William Dock -- André Cournand -- Mary Allen Engle -- Richard J. Bing -- Charles P. Bailey -- John W. Kirklin -- Arthur C. Guyton -- Albert Starr -- Paul M. Zoll -- Michael E. DeBakey -- René G. Favaloro -- Adrian Kantrowitz -- Willem J. Kolff -- Jeremiah Stamler -- Eugene Braunwald -- J. Willis Hurst -- The twenty-first century.

ISBN

0813531578 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2002020161

OCLC

• ocm48893075
• SCSB-4864808

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries