The Wisdom of the Body (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Sherwin B. Nuland
- First Published: 1997
- Type of Work: Biology and ethics
- Genres: Nonfiction, Current affairs, Science and technology
- Subjects: Spiritual life or spirituality, Emotions, Cancer, Surgery or surgeons, Home, Environment or environmental health, Diseases, Biography, Human anatomy, Bioethics, Brain
Sherwin B. Nuland is a clinical professor of surgery at Yale University, where he also teaches medical history and bioethics. He is also the author of the acclaimed How We Die (1994). Nuland is writing for a general audience, although he does not skirt complex explanations of human biology. (Consulting the glossary at the back of the book provides help with his scientific explanations.) Wisely, he begins his book with a riveting incident in an operating room before launching into more difficult passages about how the body works and about his philosophy of life. Nuland writes...
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