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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 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.
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- Library Binding: 440 pages
- Publisher: Rutgers University Press (November 2, 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0813531578
- ISBN-13: 978-0813531571
- Product Dimensions: 1.2 x 6.4 x 9.6 inches
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As the sudden appearance of cardiovascular disease as a major health threat, so was the response of medical scientists, who began to address every aspect of diagnosis, treatment and prevention of heart diseases which is considered later to be epidemic. In this book Weisse -an academic physician- is presenting the story of the twentieth century battle against cardiac disease through intimate conversations with some of the leading physicians and surgeons who figured so prominently in this effort. As we can see from his biography as a historian and member in history associations, his purpose is to provide a rare type of historical information collected by himself through interviewing 16 pioneers in diagnosis, prevention and treatment of cardiac diseases in a big project. The project started in 1979 when the earliest of these interviews were conducted, and concluded in 2000 the beginning of the new millennium. This period was a golden period in medical research, productivity and progress.
The reason why the author used oral history is mentioned for 2 reasons. First, there are already some excellent cardiology history books, some of them are mentioned in "Selected Bibliography" section of the book where the first book is also mentioned. Second, the conversational approach allows questioning these cardiologists in a give and take manner to bring special type of freshness to the history about events, people, motivations, problems, interactions and their hopes and beliefs for the future. These aspects of medical history are rarely available in conventional historical books. He also mentioned the drawback of this approach that there are many other pioneers were excluded who might merit inclusion. To compensate this, he added a list of short biographies to the end of the book.
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