Kosky From the Heart

A Memoir and a Meditation on a Vital Organ
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-0-231-56183-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 344 Seiten

From the Heart weaves together a personal narrative of a life-threatening ailment with considerations of philosophy, art, and science to contemplate ultimate questions: matters of life and death.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kosky, Jeffrey L.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Wissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Phänomenologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
The Beginning: It’s Hard to Have a Heart
Interlude: After the Fact
Part I: Book of My Heart
1. The Heart I Call Mine
2. Producing the Heart: A History of the Surgery That Gave Me a Future
Interlude: On the Slaughter in the Operating Room of History
3. Conceiving the Heart: A Pump at the Heart of Me
4. Listen to Your Heart: A Cure?
Interlude: Cured of the Cure: Speak to Your Heart
5. “Up with You Now, Come on, My Old Heart!”
Part II: Having a Heart Is a Chronic Condition
6. The Heart’s Imperative
7. Put Your Heart in It
8. Heartfelt
The End
Notes
Illustration Credits
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jeffrey L. Kosky is professor of religion at Washington & Lee University. His books include Arts of Wonder: Enchanting Secularity (2013).