Word: nuland
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...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...
...Exploration, the Industrial Revolution--have created a succession of new plateaus for human achievement. Medicine is now experiencing just such a surge of enlightenment and advance, producing a parade of breakthroughs so flabbergasting that they are routinely described as "revolutionary" or even, as Yale's Dr. Sherwin Nuland observes in this issue's opening piece, by the decidedly unscientific encomium of "miracle...
Sherwin B. Nuland is clinical professor of surgery at the Yale School of Medicine. His book How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter won the 1994 National Book Award for nonfiction...
William Gaddis has won the prestigious 1994 National Book Award for fiction for a satirical look at litigious America, "A Frolic of His Own" -- the second time Gaddis claimed the prize. (He won in 1976 for his second novel, "JR.") Other winners, announced last night, are: surgeon Sherwin B. Nuland's "How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter," a meditation on death, in the nonfiction category; James Tate, a University of Massachusetts professor, won the poetry prize for, "Worshipful Company of Fletchers"; and poet Gwendolyn Brooks received the National Book Foundation Medal, a lifetime achievement award.Post your opinion...
...contains vivid accounts, based on individual case histories, of death's major causes, from accidents to Alzheimer's to AIDS. One of Nuland's case histories involves a drug addict and AIDS victim he calls Ishmael Garcia. With chilling clarity, the author describes Garcia's gradual and painful "descent into the valley of fever and incoherence" via pneumonia, meningitis and lymphoma of the brain. As he lay dying, Garcia was taking 14 experimental medications, none of which slowed what Nuland calls "a jet- propelled pestilence." Death certificates require that attending doctors state a cause; Nuland points out that for most...