Robin Choudhury

Cardiologist Professor Robin Choudhury explains how human perception of the heart and scientific understanding have developed over 2,500 years of history.

Choudhury says no other human organ has been so richly depicted over the years and across cultures. He looks at the relationship between the depiction of the heart in different eras and cultures and the prevailing religious and philosophical discourse. And he considers how scientific understanding of the heart has evolved from the observations of Aristotle to the detailed anatomical examination of the Renaissance and the full 20th-century understanding of the heart’s processes.

Choudhury is professor of cardiovascular medicine at the University of Oxford and runs a laboratory working on molecular and cellular mechanisms of heart injury and repair. He is co-editor of the Handbook of Cardiology Emergencies and contributor to the Oxford Textbook of Medicine.