The wine-dark sea within : a turbulent history of blood
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- ISBN: 9781541600669
- ISBN: 1541600665
- ISBN: 9781541600676
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xx, 357 pages ; 25 cm - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Basic Books, 2022.
- Copyright: ©2022
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-336) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | The Oriental heritage -- The sea within us -- Seeing is believing -- The life it brings -- Body flame -- Through the blood darkly -- Knot of veins -- A different drumbeat -- Prince of physicians -- Coming to grips -- Brave new world -- The proper study of man -- A disinherited mind -- The medical merchants of Venice -- Hunted heretic -- A eureka moment -- Arabian knight -- Who's on first? -- Wild sea of troubles -- Prelude to glory -- The finest hour -- Closing the ring -- Ahead of the curve -- Pride and prejudice -- The French connection -- Bad blood -- A confederacy of circulateurs -- Once more into the breach -- The goodness of airs -- Oxford chemists -- Niter, niter, everywhere -- Phlogiston -- Concerto for airs -- Unto this last -- In our time. |
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Genre: | History. Popular works. |
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The Wine-Dark Sea Within : A Turbulent History of Blood
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The Wine-Dark Sea Within : A Turbulent History of Blood
A revisionist history of medicine, in which blood plays the starring role Inspired by Homer's description of the ebb and flow of the "wine dark sea," the ancient Greeks conceived a back-and-forth movement of blood. That false notion, perpetuated by the influential Roman physician Galen, prevailed for fifteen hundred years until William Harvey proved that blood circulates: the heart pumps blood in one direction through the arteries and it returns through the veins. Harvey's discovery revolutionized the life sciences by making possible an entirely new quantitative understanding of the cardiovascular system, a way of thinking on which many of our lifesaving medical interventions today depend. In The Wine-Dark Sea Within , cardiologist Dhun Sethna argues that Harvey's revelation inaugurated modern medicine and paved the way for groundbreaking advances from intravenous therapy, cardiac imaging, and stent insertions to bypass surgery, dialysis, and heart-lung machines. Weaving together three thousand years of global history, following bitter feudsâ¯and epic alliances,â¯tragic failures and extraordinary advancements, this is a provocative history by a fresh voice in popular science.