"Heart: A History," his last book, was named a best book of 2018 by the Mail on Sunday, Science Friday, Zocalo Public Square, and the Los Angeles Public Library, and was the PBS NewsHour/New York Times book club pick for January 2019 it was also a finalist for the Wellcome Book Prize.Ī practicing physician, Jauhar writes regularly for the opinion section of The New York Times. His second book, "Doctored: The Disillusionment of an American Physician," was a New York Times bestseller and was named a New York Post Best Book of 2014. Jauhar's first book, "Intern: A Doctor's Initiation," was a national bestseller and was optioned by NBC for a dramatic television series. It delves into what happens in the brain as we age and our memory falters, how memory gives meaning to our lives, even as it changes with time, how dementia complicates our understanding of what it means to have a self - and what all this means for patients, their families, and society at large. At the same time, the book explores everything from ancient conceptions of the mind to the most cutting-edge neurological―and bioethical―research. Though the conflicts are personal, they are also universal-conversations and conflicts that every family facing the mental erosion of an elder has. The book relates the complications that arise when family members must become caregivers. In the book, Jauhar sets his father’s descent into Alzheimer’s alongside his own journey toward understanding his father’s disease. His latest book, "My Father’s Brain," published in April 2023, is a memoir of his relationship with his father as he succumbed to dementia. Sandeep Jauhar has written several bestselling books, all published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. He also confronts the limits of medical technology and argues that future progress will be determined more by how we choose to live rather than by any device we invent. People like Daniel Hale Williams, who performed the world’s first documented heart surgery, and Wilson Greatbatch, who accidentally invented the pacemaker.Īmid gripping scenes from the operating theatre, Jauhar interweaves stories about the patients he’s treated with the moving tale of his family’s own history of heart problems, from his grandfather’s sudden death in India – an event that sparked his life-long obsession – to the ominous signs of how he himself might die. He looks at some of the pioneers who risked their careers and their patients’ lives to better understand the heart. Practising cardiologist Sandeep Jauhar beautifully weaves his own experiences with the defining discoveries of the past to tell the story of our most vital organ.
It’s so bound up with our deepest feelings that emotional trauma causes it to change shape. The heart lies at the centre of every facet of our existence.
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