ISBN: PB: 9781915054517

ISBN: HB: 9781800316058

Legend Times Group, Hero

August 2022

288 pp.

19,8x12,9 cm

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£10.99
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Beat of Life

The heart is our most important – and perhaps most mysterious – organ.

Every day it pumps 9000 litres of blood and beats around 100,000 times. But the heart is more than just a pump. In all major human cultures, it is seen as the source of love, sympathy, joy, courage, strength and wisdom. Why?

Having witnessed the extraordinary complexity and unpredictability of human hearts in the operating theatre - each one individual in its make-up, like a fingerprint - heart surgeon Reinhard Friedl went on a search for answers. He examined closely the latest findings in neurocardiology and psychocardiology, and in "The Beat of Life" he shares his discoveries, using riveting personal stories to illustrate the complex relationship between the heart, the brain and the psyche.

About the author

Dr Reinhard Friedl is an eminent German surgeon who has held thousands of hearts in his hands. He has operated on premature babies and repaired the heart valves of the very old, implanted artificial heart turbines and stitched up stabbing wounds to the heart.