Sherwin B. Nuland, Author . Knopf $24 (224p) ISBN 978-0-375-41294-3
In his late 30s and early 40s, National Book Award winner Nuland (How We Die) was gripped by a depression so unyielding to treatment he almost underwent a lobotomy (the procedure was halted by a young resident psychiatrist who refused to listen to...
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Sherwin B. Nuland, Author . Norton $21.95 (191p) ISBN 978-0-393-05299-2
In 1847, one out of every six women who delivered a baby in the First Division at the Allgemeine Krankenhaus hospital in Vienna died of childbed fever, a situation mirrored at other medical facilities in Europe and the U.S. Bestselling author Nuland
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Sherwin B. Nuland, Author . Schocken/Nextbook $19.95 (233p) ISBN 978-0-8052-4200-3
Maimonides, one of the preeminent personalities of medieval Jewish history, was a jurist, philosopher, expert in Jewish law, physician at the court of Saladin and a respected and dedicated communal leader. Given all that, it's difficult to...
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Sherwin B. Nuland, Author . Random $24.95 (302p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6477-9
The septuagenarian surgeon whose brutally honest demythologization of death in How We Die
garnered a National Book Award offers a mushier, platitude-filled treatise on aging, calling it a "gift" that establishes boundaries in our lives,...
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Sherwin B. Nuland, Author . Random $25 (198p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6478-6
In these essays reprinted, for the most part, from the American Scholar
, Yale clinical surgery professor Nuland ponders various aspects of the practice of medicine and patient care. Opening the collection by urging his colleagues toward...
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Sherwin B. Nuland, Author . Kaplan $26.95 (214p) ISBN 978-1-60714-055-9
National Book Award–winner Nuland (How We Die
) turns over his latest collection to the stories of more than a dozen specialists describing their most memorable patients. What is extraordinary about Nuland's compilation is not the medical
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Sherwin B. Nuland, Author Alfred A. Knopf $29.95 (519p) ISBN 978-0-394-55130-2
To tell the story of medicine since Hippocrates and Galen, Nuland, a surgeon and faculty member of the Yale School of Medicine, focuses on the personalities and careers of medical innovators since the 16th century who epitomized the scientific...
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Sherwin B. Nuland, Author Alfred A. Knopf $26.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-679-44407-7
This latest book by the author of the National Book Award-winning bestseller How We Die could have been titled How We Live. Instead, Nuland, clinical professor of surgery at Yale University, borrows a title used variously by several luminaries of a...
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Sherwin B. Nuland, Author Simon & Schuster $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-684-85486-1
In this gracefully written study, bestselling surgeon and Yale professor Nuland (How We Die) takes a scalpel to centuries of folk beliefs, superstitions, myths and wishful thinking that have clung to modern Western medicine through its history. The...
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Sherwin B. Nuland, Author Viking Penguin $19.95 (170p) ISBN 978-0-670-89391-1
Say what one will about Edna O'Brien's ravishing clip job of Joyce, Peter Gay's moderate Mozart or Edmund White's microcosmic Proust, the editors at Penguin Lives have a knack for matching up free-thinking meditators and their subjects. A surgeon...
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Sherwin B. Nuland, Author, Nuland, Author Alfred A Knopf Inc $24 (278p) ISBN 978-0-679-41461-2
A physician who teaches at the Yale School of Medicine, Nuland writes gracefully about a topic most of us would rather not dwell on--our impending deaths. He demystifies the process of dying by providing straightforward information on the clinical,...
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Sherwin B. Nuland, Author, Marty Asher, Editor Vintage Books USA $15 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-72215-1
To tell the story of medicine since Hippocrates and Galen, Nuland focuses on the personalities and careers of medical innovators since the 16th century who epitomized the scientific climate and culture of their period. PW called this an ``enthusiatic
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Sherwin B. Nuland, Author, S. B. Nuland, Author Vintage Books USA $16 (320p) ISBN 978-0-679-74244-9
The 1994 NBA nonfiction winner, Yale physician Nuland's study of the clinical, biological and emotional details of dying was a 14-week PW bestseller. (Jan.)
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