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CONTENTS
Cover
Title Page
Welcome
Dedication
Epigraph
The Human Heart
Introduction
1. The Bar Fight That Precipitated the Dawn of Heart Surgery
2. The Prince of the Heart
3. When Art Reinvented Science
4. Blood’s Orbit
5. Seeing the Thing That Eats the Heart
6. The Rhythm Method
7. Frankenstein’s Monsters
8. Atomic Cows
9. Lighter than a Feather
10. Mending the Broken Heart
11. War and Fungus
12. The Perfect Diet
13. The Beetle and the Cigarette
14. The Book of Broken Hearts
15. The Evolution of Broken Hearts
16. Sugarcoating Heart Disease
17. Escaping the Laws of Nature
Postscript: The Future Science of the Heart
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Also by Rob Dunn
Endnotes, References, and a Few Anecdotes
Bibliography
Newsletters
Copyright
Copyright
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