The Wet Engine: Exploring the Mad Wild Miracle of the Heart - Brossura

Doyle, Brian

 
9780870716539: The Wet Engine: Exploring the Mad Wild Miracle of the Heart
Brossura
ISBN 10: 0870716530 ISBN 13: 9780870716539
Casa editrice: Oregon State Univ Pr, 2012

Sinossi

In this poignant and startlingly original book, Brian Doyle examines the heart as a physical organ—how it is supposed to work, how surgeons try to fix it when it doesn’t—and as a metaphor: the seat of the soul, the power house of the body, the essence of spirituality. In a series of profoundly moving ruminations, Doyle considers the scientific, emotional, literary, philosophical, and spiritual understandings of the heart—from cardiology to courage, from love letters and pop songs to Jesus. Weaving these strands together is the torment of Doyle’s own infant son’s heart surgery and the inspiring story of the young heart doctor who saved Liam’s life.

The Wet Engine is a book that will change how you feel and think about the mysterious, fragile human heart. This new paperback edition includes a foreword by Dr. Marla Salmon, dean of the University of Washington School of Nursing.

 

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Informazioni sull'autore

Brian Doyle is the author of twelve books, including the novel Mink River and The Grail, his account of a year in a vineyard in Oregon. He edits Portland Magazine at the University of Portland.

 

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“My son Liam was born nine years ago. He looked like a cucumber on steroids. He was fat and bald and round. He looked healthy as a horse. He wasn’t. He was missing a chamber in his heart, which is a problem, as you need four chambers for smooth conduct through this vale of fears and tears, and he only had three chambers, so pretty soon he had an open-heart surgery, during which doctors cut him open and iced down his heart and shut it down for an hour or so while they worked on repair…” —from The Wet Engine


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Editore
Oregon State Univ Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2012
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0870716530
ISBN 13 
9780870716539
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
120
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
non disponibile

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9781557254054: The Wet Engine: Exploring The Mad Wild Miracle Of The Heart

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  1557254052 ISBN 13:  9781557254054
Casa editrice: Paraclete Pr, 2005
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