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- catalog abstract ""So begins A MAN AFTER HIS OWN HEART, an extraordinary narrative by acclaimed author, essayist, and poet Charles Siebert on the most elusive of topics-the human heart. On a rainy December night one recent winter, Siebert was given the rare opportunity to accompany a team of surgeons both in the harvesting of a human heart from the body of a young woman who'd recently died of a brain aneurysm, and in the subsequent delivery and implantation of the heart into the hollowed-out chest of a waiting recipient. Beginning with his harrowing week-long wait for the harvest call to come and culminating with the moment in which one of the implant surgeons suddenly, inexplicably, places the author's hand on the wildly beating reanimated heart, Siebert manages to weave a seamless series of ruminations and reflections about his own obsession with the heart and his often estranged father's fatal heart disease; about history's ongoing fascination with this most central and vital organ; and about modern science's latest starling discovers concerning both the heart's biological origins and its long-intuited role in the play of our emotions. The resulting mix is nothing less than a radically new, definitive biography of life's most pondered and poeticized protagonist. This story is a journey into the literal and figurative heart of our being, revealing the the previously unexplored ways in which the matter of modern science and timeless metaphor meet."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13148727.
- catalog created "c2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "c2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
- catalog description ""So begins A MAN AFTER HIS OWN HEART, an extraordinary narrative by acclaimed author, essayist, and poet Charles Siebert on the most elusive of topics-the human heart. On a rainy December night one recent winter, Siebert was given the rare opportunity to accompany a team of surgeons both in the harvesting of a human heart from the body of a young woman who'd recently died of a brain aneurysm, and in the subsequent delivery and implantation of the heart into the hollowed-out chest of a waiting recipient. Beginning with his harrowing week-long wait for the harvest call to come and culminating with the moment in which one of the implant surgeons suddenly, inexplicably, places the author's hand on the wildly beating reanimated heart, Siebert manages to weave a seamless series of ruminations and reflections about his own obsession with the heart and his often estranged father's fatal heart disease; about history's ongoing fascination with this most central and vital organ; and about modern science's latest starling discovers concerning both the heart's biological origins and its long-intuited role in the play of our emotions. The resulting mix is nothing less than a radically new, definitive biography of life's most pondered and poeticized protagonist. This story is a journey into the literal and figurative heart of our being, revealing the the previously unexplored ways in which the matter of modern science and timeless metaphor meet."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "viii, 274 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0609602217 (Hardcover)".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "c2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Crown Publishers,".
- catalog subject "617.4/120592 21".
- catalog subject "Heart Popular works.".
- catalog subject "Heart Transplantation Popular works.".
- catalog subject "Heart Transplantation ethics Personal Narratives.".
- catalog subject "Heart Transplantation psychology Personal Narratives.".
- catalog subject "RD598.35.T7 S54 2004".
- catalog subject "Tissue and Organ Harvesting ethics Personal Narratives.".
- catalog subject "Tissue and Organ Harvesting psychology Personal Narratives.".
- catalog subject "WG 169 S266m 2004".
- catalog title "A man after his own heart : a true story / Charles Siebert.".
- catalog type "Popular works. fast".
- catalog type "text".