Vincent M. Figueredo

The Curious History of the Heart by Vincent M. Figueredo is a Gold Award Winner of the 2024 Nonfiction Book Awards. It was also a runner-up in the 2024 History category at the San Francisco Book Festival and in the 2024 General Non-Fiction category at the New York Book Festival. For much of recorded history, people considered the heart to...

For much of recorded history, people considered the heart to be the most important organ in the body. In cultures around the world, the heart—not the brain—was believed to be the location of intelligence, memory, emotion, and the soul. Over time, views on the purpose of the heart have transformed as people sought to understand the life forces it contains....