An account of what happens to us when we die, whether through heart failure, cancer, AIDS, Alzheimer's disease, murder, accident or suicide. Sherwin Nuland is a surgeon in the US and the author of "The Doctors", which explored the ethics of the medical world.

How We Die

Nuland, Sherwin B.

Parenting & Relationships

Vintage

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. How we live: the wisdom of the body. xxiv,395p ill 20cm pbk. . Originally published: as The wisdom of the body. London : Chatto & Windus, 1997. Includes index.. . Light edge wear, contents clean and unmarked.

How We Live

Health, Fitness & Dieting

He walks with me through every day of my life, in that unsteady, faltering gait that so embarrassed me when I was a boy. Always, he is holding fast to the upper part of my right arm . . . As we make our way together, my father—I called him Daddy when I was small, because it sounded American and that is how he so desperately wanted things to seem—is speaking in the idiosyncratic rhythms of a self-constructed English. So Sherwin Nuland introduces Meyer Nudelman, his father, a man whose presence continues to haunt Nuland to this day. Meyer Nudelman came to America from Russia at the turn of the twentieth century, when he was nineteen. Pursuing the immigrant’s dream of a better life but finding the opposite, he lived an endless round of frustration, despair, anger, and loss: overwhelmed by the premature deaths of his first son and wife; his oldest surviving son disabled by rheumatic fever in his teens; his youngest son, Sherwin, dutiful but defiant, caring for him as his life, beset by illness and fierce bitterness, wound to its unalterable end. Lost in America, Nuland’s harrowing and empathetic account of his father’s life, is equally revealing about the author himself. We see what it cost him to admit the inextricable ties between father and son and to accept the burden of his father’s legacy. In Lost in America, Sherwin Nuland has written a memoir at once timeless and universal.

Lost in America: A Journey with My Father

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

KNOPF

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 of the last century but remained an eternal outsider. Awkward in speech and movement, broken by the premature deaths of a wife and child, Meyer ruled his youngest son with a regime of rage, dependency, and helpless love that outlasted his death. In evoking their relationship, Nuland also summons up the warmth and claustrophobia of a vanished immigrant New York, a world that impelled its children toward success yet made them feel like traitors for leaving it behind. Full of feeling and unwavering observation, Lost in America deserves a place alongside such classics as Patrimony and Call It Sleep.

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

An analysis of nineteenth-century Viennese doctor Ignac Semmelweis's reforms of the medical establishment describes his discovery of the correlation between hand washing and reduced infection, recounting how his early work contributed to the subsequent establishment of germ theory. 30,000 first printing.

The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis (Great Discoveries)

History

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

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 linked life portraits, the theory bears little resemblance to the truth. Through the centuries, the men and women Who have shaped the world of medicine have been not only very human people but also very much the products of their own times and places. Presenting compelling studies of great medical innovators and pioneers, Doctors gives us the extraordinary story of the development of modern medicine -- told through the lives of the physician-scientists whose deeds and determination paved the way. Ranging from the legendary Father of Medicine, Hippocrates, to Andreas Vesalius, whose Renaissance masterwork on anatomy offered invaluable new insight into the human body, to Helen Taussig, founder of pediatric cardiology and co-inventor of the original "blue baby" operation, here is a volume filled with the spirit of ideas and the thrill of discovery. Says The New York Times, "Doctors can be warmly recommended. Dr. Nuland succeeds in bringing his subjects vividly to life, and he leaves you with a much better understanding of what they achieved." From the Trade Paperback edition.

Doctors The Biogaphy of Medicine

Professionals & Academics

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 disease, and strokes, revealing the facets of death's multiplicity. "It's impossible to read How We Die without realizing how earnestly we have avoided this most unavoidable of subjects, how we have protected ourselves by building a cultural wall of myths and lies. I don't know of any writer or scientist who has shown us the face of death as clearly, honestly and compassionately as Sherwin Nuland does here."--James GleickFrom the Trade Paperback edition.

Self-Help

Death & Grief

Random House Value Publishing

The Wisdom of the Body

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

This is an explanation of what happens to us when we die, whether it be through old age, cancer, AIDS, heart disease, Alzheimer's, an accident, a stroke, or murder. The author explores each of these areas, illuminating them with stories of particular individuals - patients, friends, his own family - and shows the reader some of the facets of death's multiplicity. The author also wrote "The Doctors".

How We Die (Reflections on Life's Final Chapter)

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Demco Media

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How We Die

How We Live

Lost in America: A Journey with My Father

Lost in America: A Journey with My Father

The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis (Great Discoveries)

Doctors The Biogaphy of Medicine

How We Die

The Wisdom of the Body

The Wisdom of the Body

How We Die (Reflections on Life's Final Chapter)