Biography - Nuland, Sherwin B. (1930-): An article from: ...
 A master physician- writer: Oliver Sachs, Loren Eisley, Lewis Thomas, are writers with whom Sherwin Nuland has something basic in common. They all have a scientific background and all write on 'human issues' in a moving way. Nuland first came to broad [... more]
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The Wisdom of the Body: Discovering the Human Spirit
Amazon.com Review: Much has been written about what makes humans distinct from other species, but what makes individual humans different from each other? Part of the answer lies in our responses to life-threatening illness, as Sherwin Nuland shows in [... more]
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How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter
To the wastebin!: Prepare yourself for a collection of voyeuristic anecdotal accounts of the dying experience. This book is void of any commendable consequence. I could not even offer it as a donation to a charitable organization. The book has been [... more]
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How We Die
To the wastebin!: Prepare yourself for a collection of voyeuristic anecdotal accounts of the dying experience. This book is void of any commendable consequence. I could not even offer it as a donation to a charitable organization. The book has been [... more]
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Doctors: The Biography of Medicine
required reading for physicians: With many of my physician colleagues rushing to turn medicine over to PAs, Nurse Practitioners, all armed with HMO guidelines and so called Evidence Based Medicine, this book shows the true nature of both medicine and [... more]
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The Art of Aging: A Doctor's Prescription for Well-Being
Case Studies in Aging and Acquiring Wisdom .....: Physician author Sherwin Nuland offers case studies of successful aging in this insightful and well-written book. Nuland has a gift for language and is as skillful with the words as he is with a scalpel. [... more]
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Lost in America: A Journey with My Father
And you thought YOUR parents were weird?: Dr. Nuland thought his immigrant father was simply weird or peculiar or just never adjusted to life in America until he was well into medical school, and diagnosed his father's tertiary syphilis by reading about [... more]
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The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the ...
`Germs, Childbed Fever and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis': I first became aware of Dr Ignac Semmelweis through reading `The Cry and the Covenant' back in the early 1970s. Microbiology, theories of germ transfer and other sciences of medicine [... more]
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Maimonides (Jewish Encounters)
Good read, bad scholarship: It's an interesting read, but Nuland cites absolutely no sources, a problem when you have a subject with as much scholarship - much of it conflicted - as there is on Maimonides. One spot where this actually leads to him to [... more]
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The Art of Aging: A Doctor's Prescription for Well-Being
Case Studies in Aging and Acquiring Wisdom .....: Physician author Sherwin Nuland offers case studies of successful aging in this insightful and well-written book. Nuland has a gift for language and is as skillful with the words as he is with a scalpel. [... more]
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The Mysteries Within: A Surgeon Reflects on Medical Myths
Amazon.com Review: Medicine has always contained elements of mythology and mysticism. Various ancient civilizations believed that the spleen and uterus moved around in the body when so motivated, that the heart was the center of thought and the liver the [... more]
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How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter
To the wastebin!: Prepare yourself for a collection of voyeuristic anecdotal accounts of the dying experience. This book is void of any commendable consequence. I could not even offer it as a donation to a charitable organization. The book has been [... more]
$14.95
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