Heart to heart
Subtitle: the twentieth century battle against heart disease : an oral history
By: Allen B. Weisse.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 415
Subjects: Cardiology -- History -- 20th century.; Cardiologists -- Interviews.; Thoracic surgeons -- Interviews.
Genres: Interviews.
Description: From 1979 to 2000, leading researchers and doctors in the field were interviewed to understand their motivations, their problems, their research, and how their pioneering work changed the course of an epidemic in modern medicine.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.403-404) and index.
Table of contents: title: William Dock; title: André Cournand; title: Mary Allen Engle; title: Richard J. Bing; title: Charles P. Bailey; title: John W. Kirklin; title: Arthur C. Guyton; title: Albert Starr; title: Paul M. Zoll; title: Michael E. DeBakey; title: René G. Favaloro; title: Adrian Kantrowitz; title: Willem J. Kolff; title: Jeremiah Stamler; title: Eugene Braunwald; title: J. Willis Hurst; title: The twenty-first century.