Subtitle: The Twentieth-Century Battle against Cardiac Disease, An Oral History
Author: Allen B. Weisse, M.D.
Subject: Health/Medicine/History of Medicine
Cloth ISBN 0-8135-3157-8
Pages: 448 pp., 16 b&w illus.
Description: The first collection of interviews with the physicians who made the groundbreaking and lifesaving discoveries in heart research and treatment in the twentieth century.
Heart to Heart is the first collection of interviews with the doctors who made the twentieth centurys most groundbreaking and lifesaving discoveries in heart research and treatment. Physician Allen B. Weisse talks with sixteen pioneering physicians about their challenges and triumphs in conquering a disease that affects millions worldwide. His interviews bring readers a unique opportunity to meet an extraordinary group of cardiologists as they candidly discuss their pioneering work.
The twentieth century was a truly incredible time of medical research productivity and progress in the treatment of heart disease. Methods of diagnosis, treatment, and prevention that were unknown or scarcely imagined at the start of the century have now been incorporated into daily medical practice.
In Heart to Heart, Dr. Allen B. Weisse presents the first collection of in-depth conversations with some of the worlds most renowned cardiologists and surgeons. Weisses 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.
Allen B. Weisse, M.D. is a professor of medicine at the New Jersey Medical School, where he has worked for over three decades. Past president of the Medical History Society of New Jersey and a member of the American Association for the History of Medicine and the American Osler Society, he is the author of Medicine: State of the Art, the award-winning Conversations in Medicine, The Staff and the Serpent: Pertinent and Impertinent Observations on the World of Medicine, and Medical Odysseys (Rutgers University Press).
Features interviews with:
Charles P. Bailey
Richard J. Bing
Eugene Braunwald
André Cournand
Michael E. DeBakey
William Dock
Mary Allen Engle
René Favaloro
Arthur C. Guyton
J. Willis Hurst
Adrian Kantrowitz
John W. Kirklin
Willem J. Kolff
Jeremiah Stamler
Albert Starr
Paul M. Zoll
