A Perverse History of the Human Heart |
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| Author:
| Doueihi, Milad |
| ISBN: | 978-0-674-66325-1 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 1998 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $61.50 |
Book Description:
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The heart has a history as long and complex, and often as sordid, as that of the secret life it once signified. This is the fascinating history that Milad Doueihi tells in a book that follows the adventures of the human heart from the myth of Dionysos to works of Dante, Boccaccio and Francis Bacon; from the Eucharist to the emergence of medicine; from antiquity to early modern times.
The heart has a history as long and complex, and often as sordid, as that of the secret life it once signified. This is the fascinating history that Milad Doueihi tells in a book that follows the adventures of the human heart from the myth of Dionysos to works of Dante, Boccaccio and Francis Bacon; from the Eucharist to the emergence of medicine; from antiquity to early modern times.