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What happens during life's final moments was the subject of Sherwin B. Nuland's award-winning How We Die (1994). Now, in The Wisdom of the Body (Knopf; 395 pages; $26.95), Yale's distinguished surgeon and bioethicist presents a kind of prequel: an anatomy of human life, vividly illustrated by case histories from his wide operating-room experience. The result is a book--part basic textbook, part memoir and meditation--that is wholly secular yet sublimely uplifting. Although not religious in a formal sense, Nuland is overwhelmed with awe at how the human body works. As he writes...
...BOOKS . . . THE WISDOM OF THE BODY: The new book (Knopf; 395 pages; $26.95) by Yale?s distinguished surgeon and bioethicist Sherwin B. Nuland presents an anatomy of human life, vividly illustrated by case histories from his wide operating-room experience. The result is a book -- part basic textbook, part memoir and meditation -- that is wholly secular yet sublimely uplifting. Although not a religious man in any formal sense, Nuland is overwhelmed with awe at how the human body works. As he writes, ?We are, of necessity, miracles with flaws.? The basic miracle, as Nuland describes it, is that the body...
...stop these things," says bioethicist Daniel Callahan of the Hastings Center in Briarcliff Manor, New York. "We are at the mercy of these technological developments. Once they're here, it's hard to turn back...
...complained to the project director, she received a letter that stated, "Patients may experience symptom aggravation . . . It would not be advisable to talk to patients about psychosis or relapse . . . Talking to patients about psychosis or schizophrenia might cause unnecessary anxiety . . ." At a recent congressional hearing, Dr. Jay Katz, a bioethicist at Yale University, said, "It is not the patient who may be anxious but the researcher, who has to look the patient straight in the eye and say, 'I want you to participate in an experiment in which your old symptoms may recur...
...digging up the past, even in the name of science, angers people who view tombs as inviolate resting places. University of Minnesota bioethicist Arthur Caplan is worried that the "Peeping Toms of forensics" are out of control. "If we don't want to devalue the past," he says, "then we're going to have to restrict the access of those who can rummage through it." Rather than banning such explorations, however, Caplan favors using blue-ribbon panels to establish guidelines for exhumations and testing. Even medical examiner Michael Baden, co-director of the New York State Police forensic-sciences % unit...