Jones, David S. (Author)
Johns Hopkins University Press
Physical Details: xiii + 319 pp.; ill.; maps
Language: English
Still the leading cause of death worldwide, heart disease challenges researchers, clinicians, and patients alike. Each day, thousands of patients and their doctors make decisions about coronary angioplasty and bypass surgery. In Broken Hearts David S. Jones sheds light on the nature and quality of those decisions. He describes the debates over what causes heart attacks and the efforts to understand such unforeseen complications of cardiac surgery as depression, mental fog, and stroke. Why do doctors and patients overestimate the effectiveness and underestimate the dangers of medical interventions, especially when doing so may lead to the overuse of medical therapies? To answer this question, Jones explores the history of cardiology and cardiac surgery in the United States and probes the ambiguities and inconsistencies in medical decision making. Based on extensive reviews of medical literature and archives, this historical perspective on medical decision making and risk highlights personal, professional, and community outcomes.
...MoreReview Carsten Timmermann (2015) Review of "Broken Hearts: The Tangled History of Cardiac Care". Social History of Medicine (pp. 418-419).
Review Weisse, Allen B. (2013) Review of "Broken Hearts: The Tangled History of Cardiac Care". Bulletin of the History of Medicine (pp. 697-698).
Similar Citations
Book
Hamraoui, Eric;
(2002)
Philosophie du progrès en cardiologie
(/isis/citation/CBB000771385/)
Book
Levy, Daniel;
Brink, Susan;
(2005)
A Change of Heart: How the Framingham Heart Study Helped Unravel the Mysteries of Cardiovascular Disease
(/isis/citation/CBB000641628/)
Thesis
Pollock, Anne;
(2007)
Medicating Race: Heart Disease and Durable Preoccupations with Difference
(/isis/citation/CBB001560686/)
Chapter
David S. Jones;
(2017)
Surgical Practice and the Reconstruction of the Theraputic Niche: The Case of Myocardial Revascularization
(/isis/citation/CBB318021455/)
Article
Linker, Beth;
(2013)
On the Borderland of Medical and Disability History: A Survey of the Fields
(/isis/citation/CBB001214256/)
Article
Aida, Lai;
(2014)
Alexis Carrel (1873--1944): Visionary Vascular Surgeon and Pioneer in Organ Transplantation
(/isis/citation/CBB001421973/)
Article
Goenka, Ajit H.;
(2007)
Rustom Jal Vakil and the Saga of Rauwolfia serpentina
(/isis/citation/CBB000831675/)
Chapter
Andrea Cozza;
(2023)
La nascita della attuale medicina cardiovascolare nella Belle Époque
(/isis/citation/CBB479954057/)
Article
Howell, Joel D.;
(2011)
Coronary Heart Disease and Heart Attacks, 1912--2010
(/isis/citation/CBB001230162/)
Article
Aronowitz, Robert A.;
(2011)
The Framingham Heart Study and the Emergence of the Risk Factor Approach to Coronary Heart Disease, 1947--1970
(/isis/citation/CBB001036212/)
Article
Nicolas Rasmussen;
(2018)
Group Weight Loss and Multiple Screening: A Tale of Two Heart Disease Programs in Postwar American Public Health
(/isis/citation/CBB293285264/)
Article
Jones, David S.;
(2000)
Visions of a Cure: Visualization, Clinical Trials, and Controversies in Cardiac Therapeutics, 1968-1998
(/isis/citation/CBB000111163/)
Article
Danesh-Pajouh, Mohammad;
(2006)
The History of Cardiology: The Era from Galen to William Harvey
(/isis/citation/CBB001510462/)
Article
Tomoko Komagamine;
Norito Kokubun;
Koichi Hirata;
(2020)
Battey’s operation as a treatment for hysteria: a review of a series of cases in the nineteenth century
(/isis/citation/CBB166598493/)
Book
Fabio Zampieri;
Sabino Illecito;
(2022)
The Heart in Antiquity: A Journey through Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, China, Pre-Hispanic America, and Greece
(/isis/citation/CBB258088710/)
Thesis
Leslie Steven Leighton;
(2015)
Explaining the Decline of Coronary Heart Disease Mortality in the United States in the 1960s: an Historical Analysis
(/isis/citation/CBB114540913/)
Article
Ziskind, Bernard;
(2006)
L'examen cardiovasculaire à la lumière des papyrus médicaux de l'Egypte ancienne
(/isis/citation/CBB000931796/)
Article
Karin Larkin;
Michelle Slaughter;
(2023)
Chasing the Cure at Cragmor Sanatorium: The Archaeology of a Tuberculosis Sanatorium
(/isis/citation/CBB016747651/)
Book
Mark Jackson;
(2018)
A Global History of Medicine
(/isis/citation/CBB458383856/)
Article
Roque, Ana Cristina;
(2014)
Doença e cura em Moçambique nos relatórios dos serviços de saúde dos finais do século XIX
(/isis/citation/CBB001420722/)
Be the first to comment!