Download or read book A Perverse History of the Human Heart written by Milad Doueihi and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The heart has a history as long and complex, and often as sordid, as that of the secret life it once signified. This is the fascinating history that Milad Doueihi tells in a book that follows the adventures of the human heart from the myth of Dionysos to works of Dante, Boccaccio and Francis Bacon; from the Eucharist to the emergence of medicine; from antiquity to early modern times.