THE HEART - LOCATION OF THE HUMAN SOUL - SITE OF SURGICAL INTERVENTION

Authors
END A WOLNER E
Citation
A. End et E. Wolner, THE HEART - LOCATION OF THE HUMAN SOUL - SITE OF SURGICAL INTERVENTION, Journal of cardiac surgery, 8(3), 1993, pp. 398-403
Citations number
NO
Categorie Soggetti
Cardiac & Cardiovascular System",Surgery
Journal title
Journal of cardiac surgery → ACNP
ISSN journal
08860440
Volume
8
Issue
3
Year of publication
1993
Pages
398 - 403
Database
ISI
SICI code
0886-0440(1993)8:3<398:TH-LOT>2.0.ZU;2-2
Abstract
Over millennia, the heart has played an important role in philosophy, medicine, literature, art, and theology. Most cultures consider the he art to be the location of the soul or mind, the ''center'' of the huma n body. Modern natural sciences, however, downgrade it to a mere organ ic blood pump and, simply, a site of surgical interventions. Dealing w ith this central organ of the body, cardiac surgery is a royal discipl ine among the medical professions and is highly respected b the public .