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For centuries, the human heart seemed beyond our understanding: an inscrutable shuddering mass that was somehow the driver of emotion and the seat of the soul. As cardiologist and bestselling author Sandeep Jauhar shows in The Heart, it was only recently that we demolished age-old taboos and devised the transformative procedures that changed the way we live. Deftly alternating between historical episodes and his own work, Jauhar tells the colorful and little known story of the doctors who risked their careers and the patients who risked their lives to know and heal our most vital organ, braiding those tales of discovery, hubris, and sorrow with moving accounts of the patients he's treated over the years. He also confronts the limits of medical technology, boldly arguing that future progress will depend more on how we choose to live than on the devices we invent. Affecting and engaging, The Heart takes the full measure of the only organ that can move itself.

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Sandeep Jauhar, MD, PhD, is the director of the Heart Failure Program at Long Island Jewish Medical Center. He is the author of Doctored and Intern, and he writes regularly for The New York Times. He lives with his wife and their son and daughter on Long Island. For more information, visit http: //sandeepjauhar.com. Patrick Lawlor has recorded over three hundred audiobooks in just about every genre. An Audie Award finalist, he has won an Earphones Award and a Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Award. His work has also received numerous Library Journal and Kirkus starred reviews and has made multiple Editors' Picks, Top 10, and Year's Best lists. An accomplished stage actor, director, and combat choreographer, he resides in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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