The Objective

There are many books and academic journals, in different disciplines, written on the topic of the human heart. These works, from different academic domains, either provide the reader with the medical and scientific perspective of the heart or the socio-cultural and humanities perspective. Commonly, and understandably, the experts within each field focus on narrow issues related to their subjects. As the knowledge within each domain expands, the detachment of these fields from one another increases, and each domain moves further from the other.   A noticeable gap appears and continuously widens.  On one side of this breach there are the scientific perspectives of the heart, and on the other side, there are the humanistic and artistic perspectives. Our humanistic view of the heart, often, stands contrary to our scientific outlook of the heart. The latter sphere becomes too particular and inundated with technical jargon to invite the interest of laypeople, and the cultural domain develops into a set of ideas, too vague and unexaminable, to summon the scientifically-minded individuals. This is the main concern that prompted the conception of this blog.

The objective of this blog is to either close the aforementioned gap or build bridges, to harmonize the prevailing, yet diverging, attitudes towards the human heart by putting the human heart on a visible platform to bring attention to it. This blog will evolve into a treasury filled with information related to the human heart. Each study presented in this blog will be analyzed, interpreted, and made plain.  If previously-unnoticed links and connections among studies from different disciplines are detected, they will be brought to attention, in hope of constructing one complete depiction and understanding of the heart.  The analyses of various studies will be written concisely. However, this blog is an evolving project and some studies and matters must be diligently disassembled, explained, and reassembled. At times brevity may need to be sacrificed to open room for expansive dissections of pertinent issues.

Last but not least, I invite the readers to correct my analyses whenever it is necessary. Although the topic of the human heart is not controversial itself, accepting different positions on it may not be comfortable. Consequently, I expect and hope for lively discussions as this blog develops.   For this blog to advance and as it does, I welcome any and all information related to the human heart. This project will take time to come to fruition as information and posts will be added to it, gradually. Accordingly, please be patient and guide me through this intriguing labyrinth.