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Love Clayton Dunford was born in 1913 in Logan, Utah. His parents were Carlos LeRoy Dunford and Eleanor Hazel Love. He married Elizabeth Bitner, daughter of Moroni (Roy) Halseth Bitner and Irma May Felt, in 1936 in Salt Lake City, Utah. They had nine children.
Today hundreds of thousands of Americans carry pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) within their bodies. These battery-powered machines—small computers, in fact—deliver electricity to the heart to correct dangerous disorders of the heartbeat. But few doctors, patients, or scholars know the history of these devices or how "heart-rhythm management" evolved into a multi-billion-dollar manufacturing and service industry. Machines in Our Hearts tells the story of these two implantable medical devices. Kirk Jeffrey, a historian of science and technology, traces the development of knowledge about the human heartbeat and follows surgeons, cardiologists, and engineers as ...
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