Sian E. Harding

The Exquisite Machine

The New Science of the Heart

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"How the new science of the heart is using biology, engineering, and mathematics to help prevent and cure heart disease"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 206mm x 142mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 368g
• ISBN-13: 9780262047142
• ISBN-10: 0262047144
• Artikelnr.: 63593289

Autorenporträt

Sian E. Harding, a recognized authority in cardiac science, is Emeritus Professor of Cardiac Pharmacology in the National Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College London, where she led the Division of Cardiovascular Sciences and the BHF Centre for Cardiac Regeneration.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction 1
2 Threats to the Heart: A Thousand Natural Shocks 9
3 The Science of the Really Small 29
4 Big Data--Many Hearts that Beat as One? 45
5 The Plastic Heart 69
6 The Responsive Heart--Emotion in Motion 83
7 Can You (Not) Die of a Broken Heart? 99
8 The Gendered Heart 119
9 The Mechanical Heart 135
10 Can Stem Cells Help Us Grow a New Heart? 151
11 When Will the Future be Here? 173
Acknowledgments 193
Notes 195
Index 215