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National Book Award winner Nuland "distills one of the greatest minds ever into its pure essence . . . truly awe-inspiring" ("Time"). Illustrations.... More

A writer renowned for his insight into the mysteries of the body now gives us a lambent and profoundly moving book about the mysteries of family. At its center lies Sherwin Nuland's Rembrandtesque portrait of his father, Meyer Nudelman, a Jewish garment worker who came to America in the early years ... More

SURGEON, SCHOLAR, BEST-SELLING AUTHOR, Sherwin B. Nuland tells the strange story of Ignac Semmelweis with urgency and the insight gained from his own studies and clinical experience. Ignac Semmelweis is remembered for the now-commonplace notion that doctors must wash their hands before examining pat... More

Attempting to demythologize the process of dying, Nuland explores how we shall die, each of us in a way that will be unique. Through particular stories of dying--of patients, and of his own family--he examines the seven most common roads to death: old age, cancer, AIDS, Alzheimer's, accidents, heart... More

How does medical science advance? Popular historians would have us believe that a few heroic individuals, possessing superhuman talents, lead an unselfish quest to better the human condition. But as renowned Yale surgeon and medical historian Sherwin B. Nuland shows in this brilliant collection of l... More

"An anatomy of human life, vividly illustrated. . . . Awe-inspiring and] sublimely uplifting."--Time Having won the National Book Award for "How We Die," his best-selling inquiry into the causes and modes of death, Sherwin Nuland now turns his attention to the miraculous resiliency of human life. F... More

From a leading medical man of letters--the bestselling author of "How We Die"--comes a portrait of Moses Maimonides, the great 12th-century philosopher and medical sage.Moses Maimonides was a Renaissance man before there was a Renaissance: a great physician who served a sultan, a dazzling Torah scho... More

Melding a scientist's passion for truth with a humanist's understanding of the heart and soul, "How We Die" creates a wise, frank, and inspiring book about the ultimate stage of life's journey.In his landmark book "How We Die," Sherwin B. Nuland profoundly altered our perception of the end of life. ... More

A National Book Award-winner and surgeon tells the extraordinary story of the development of modern medicine through compelling studies of the great innovators and pioneers. Artfully selected illustrations bring the history of medicine to life as never before.National Book Award-winner and surgeon S... More