Broken hearts : the tangled history of cardiac care / David S. Jones.

Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.

xiii, 319 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The mysteries of heart attacks -- The case for plaque rupture -- The case against plaque rupture -- Learning by doing -- The plaque rupture consensus -- Rupture therapeutics -- Therapeutic ruptures -- Fear and unpredictability -- Surgical ambition and fear -- Suffering cerebrums -- Deliriogenic personalities -- The case of the missing complications -- Selective inattention -- The cerebral complications of coronary artery bypass surgery -- A taxonomy of inattention -- Competition's complications.