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...Susan Sherwin, associate dean for development in the Divinity School, says that there have been meetings in the past between the small schools to collaborate on strategies for fundraising, but ultimately that raising money at smaller schools happens "with difficulty...
...January of last year, the faculty approved an $8-10 million plan to renovate the library, a project which Sherwin calls "an enormous challenge...
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...
...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...