Download or read book The Heart An Elegant Pump written by Desmond J Sheridan and published by Wspc (Europe). This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Our hearts have evolved to be extremely efficient, long-lasting pumps that exquisitely match the needs of our bodies. This book is about how the heart does this; how can a heart pump the blood for up to one hundred years while the best formula one racing engine has a working life measured in hours? Why is the heart so efficient, and how are worn out parts replaced while working? How does it generate the force to act as a pump, how is it controlled electrically, and how can it repair itself? This book addresses these questions from physiological and molecular perspectives in language that aims to be accessible to all interested in biology and with liberal illustrations. The story of how the heart works is presented in the context of its origins; How is the heart formed in the womb? How it evolved as an oxygen pump through many configurations following the onset of oxygenic photosynthesis 2.5 billion years ago? Why its intimate co-evolution with the circulation and blood was essential to enable its efficiency and longevity? The book begins with a discussion of why the word heart is universally used as a metaphor for reason and emotion and traces its origins in modern and ancient languages. The last chapter explains why most diseases of the heart can be attributed to a divergence between the lifestyle for which the heart is optimally evolved, and those lived today in high-income nations and increasingly in middle and lower-income nations. Advice on how to preserve the heart is presented in light of this"--
Download or read book Heart The An Elegant Pump Its Origins And Partners written by Desmond J Sheridan and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our hearts have evolved to be extremely efficient, long-lasting pumps that exquisitely match the needs of our bodies. This book is about how the heart does this; how can a heart pump the blood for up to 100 years while the best Formula 1 racing engine has a working life measured in hours? Why is the heart so efficient, and how are worn out parts replaced while working? How does it generate the force to act as a pump, how is it controlled electrically, and how can it repair itself?This book addresses these questions from physiological and molecular perspectives in language that aims to be accessible to all interested in biology and with liberal illustrations.The story of how the heart works is presented in the context of its origins:The book begins with a discussion of why the word heart is universally used as a metaphor for reason and emotion and traces its origins in modern and ancient languages. The last chapter offers advice on how to preserve the heart by matching our lifestyles more closely to how it evolved.
Download or read book The Heart An Elegant Pump written by Desmond John Sheridan and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our hearts have evolved to be extremely efficient, long-lasting pumps that exquisitely match the needs of our bodies. This book is about how the heart does this; how can a heart pump the blood for up to one hundred years while the best formula one racing engine has a working life measured in hours? Why is the heart so efficient, and how are worn out parts replaced while working? How does it generate the force to act as a pump, how is it controlled electrically, and how can it repair itself? This book addresses these questions from physiological and molecular perspectives in language that aims to be accessible to all interested in biology and with liberal illustrations. The story of how the heart works is presented in the context of its origins; How is the heart formed in the womb? How it evolved as an oxygen pump through many configurations following the onset of oxygenic photosynthesis 2.5 billion years ago? Why its intimate co-evolution with the circulation and blood was essential to enable its efficiency and longevity? The book begins with a discussion of why the word heart is universally used as a metaphor for reason and emotion and traces its origins in modern and ancient languages. The last chapter explains why most diseases of the heart can be attributed to a divergence between the lifestyle for which the heart is optimally evolved, and those lived today in high-income nations and increasingly in middle and lower-income nations. Advice on how to preserve the heart is presented in light of this."--
Download or read book Partners of the Heart written by Vivien T. Thomas and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1998-01-29 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visitors to the Blalock Building at the Johns Hopkins University Medical Center are greeted by portraits of two great men. One, of renowned heart surgeon Alfred Blalock, speaks for itself. The other, of highschool graduate Vivien Thomas, is testimony to the incredible genius and determination of the first black man to hold a professional position at one of America's premier medical institutions. Thomas's dreams of attending medical school were dashed when the Depression hit. After spending some time as a carpenter's apprentice, Thomas took what he expected to be a temporary job as a technician in Blalock's lab. The two men soon became partners and together invented the field of cardiac surgery. Partners of the Heart is Thomas's extraordinary autobiography. Trained in laboratory techniques by Alfred Blalock and Joseph W. Beard, Thomas remained Blalock's principal technician and laboratory chief for the rest of Blalock's distinguished career. Thomas very rapidly learned to perform surgery, to do chemical determinations, and to carry out physiologic studies. He became a phenomenal technician and was able to carry out complicated experimental cardiac operations totally unassisted and to devise new ones. In addition to telling Thomas's life story, Partners of the Heart traces the beginnings of modern cardiac surgery, crucial investigations into the nature of shock, and Blalock's methods of training surgeons.
Download or read book The Heart the Living Pump written by Goode P. Davis and published by . This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an illustrated introduction to the human heart and its function.
Download or read book Pump written by Bill Schutt and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Zoologist Bill Schutt delivers a look at hearts from across the animal kingdom, from insects to whales to humans. Illustrated with black-and-white line drawings"--
Download or read book Partners of the Heart written by Vivien Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pump It Up written by Joanne Randolph and published by . This book was released on 2017-03 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The heart is a vital organ in the human body. Diagrams and full-color photos and illustrations, paired with accessible and informative text, showcase how the heart works and what its job is in the human body.
Download or read book History of Greene County Missouri written by Return Ira Holcombe and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book State of the Heart written by Haider Warraich and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In State of the Heart, Dr. Haider Warraich takes readers inside the ER, inside patients' rooms, and inside the history and science of cardiac disease. State of the Heart traces the entire arc of the heart, from the very first time it was depicted on stone tablets, to a future in which it may very well become redundant. While heart disease has been around for a while, the type of heart disease people have, why they have it, and how it’s treated is changing. Yet, the golden age of heart science is only just beginning. And with treatments of heart disease altering the very definitions of human life and death, there is no better time to look at the present and future of heart disease, the doctors and nurses who treat it, the patients and caregivers who live with it, and the stories they hold close to their chests. More people die of heart disease than any other disease in the world and when any form of heart disease progresses, it can result in the development of heart failure. Heart failure affects millions and can affect anyone at anytime, a child recovering from a viral infection, a woman who has just given birth or a cancer patient receiving chemotherapy. Yet new technology to treat heart failure is fundamentally changing just what it means to be human. Mechanical pumps can be surgically sown into patients’ hearts and when patients with these pumps get really sick, sometimes they don’t need a doctor or a surgeon—they need a mechanic. In State of the Heart, the journey to rid the world of heart disease is shown to be reflective of the journey of medical science at large. We are learning not only that women have as much heart disease as men, but that the type of heart disease women experience is diametrically different from that in men. We are learning that heart disease and cancer may have more in common than we could have imagined. And we are learning how human evolution itself may have led to the epidemic of heart disease. In understanding how our knowledge of the heart evolved, State of the Heart traces the twisting and turning road that science has taken—filled with potholes and blind turns—all the way back to its very origin.
Download or read book History of Greene County Missouri written by and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 1028 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Heart written by N. Boyadjian and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Neighborhood Politics written by Larry Bennett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1997. This book is the outcome of a small project that grew and grew. In the fall of 1990 the Chicago-based Policy Research Action Group (PRAG) commissioned the author to do a study of the Uptown area, to which he had moved in 1988.lMeanwhile, in conjunction with his university's Foreign Study Program, he spent the fall of 1991 in Sheffield, England.
Download or read book Sophie s World written by Jostein Gaarder and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2007-03-20 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One day Sophie comes home from school to find two questions in her mail: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" Before she knows it she is enrolled in a correspondence course with a mysterious philosopher. Thus begins Jostein Gaarder's unique novel, which is not only a mystery, but also a complete and entertaining history of philosophy.
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