The story of the human heart through 11 ground-breaking operations
Thomas Morris worked for the BBC for seventeen years making programmes for Radio 4 and Radio 3. For five years he was the producer of In Our Time, and previously worked on Front Row, Open Book and The Film Programme. His freelance journalism has appeared in publications including The Times, The Lancet and The Cricketer. In 2015 he was awarded a Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award for non-fiction. He lives in London.
Thrilling ... Significant and often immersive… The “dizzying” story
of heart surgery is every bit as important as that of the nuclear,
computer or rocket ages. And now it has been given the history it
deserves
*Sunday Times*
The research that has gone into this book is simply staggering, and
Morris has achieved much more than a history of heart operations…
It is a study of human beings driven by Olympian ambition and
bottomless curiosity. It is, in the end, a book about wonder. And a
wonderful book.
*Daily Telegraph, 5 stars ******
Gripping... The Matter of the Heart details the breathtaking
advances that have been made in the past 100 years.
*Guardian*
Thomas Morris has written not a history of medical ideas about the
heart, but a history of heart surgery... The stories come quickly:
fluent, wry, admiring ... Morris has made something unique: a
history less of people than of procedures, but lively, enthusiastic
and brimming with detail ... anything but boring.
*New Statesman*
I recommend the book to all who are fascinated by the medical
world...a thoroughly engaging history.
*Wall Street Journal*
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