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Author Alberti, Fay Bound, 1971-

Title Matters of the heart : history, medicine, and emotion / Fay Bound Alberti.

Publication Info. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

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 Moore Stacks  RC682 .A425 2010    Available  ---
Description viii, 228 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Bibliography 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.
Subject Heart -- Diseases -- Social aspects -- History.
Heart -- Diseases -- Social aspects.
History.
Heart -- Anatomy.
Heart -- Anatomy.
Heart -- Symbolic aspects.
Heart -- Symbolic aspects.
Emotions.
Emotions.
Mind and body.
Mind and body.
ISBN 9780199540976 hardback alkaline paper
0199540977 hardback alkaline paper