Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-222) and index.
Contents
Humours to hormones : emotion and the heart in history -- Hunter's heart : pathological anatomy and the science of disease -- Knowing the heart : from morbid anatomy to new technologies -- Angina pectoris and the Arnold family -- 'Heart Latham' and nineteenth-century medical practice -- The heart of Harriet Martineau -- Emotions and the brain : rethinking the mind-body relationship.