How We Die

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Chatto & Windus, 1994 - 278 pagini
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.

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A Valentineand How It Fails
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Three Score and Ten
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Doors to Death of the Aged
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Despre autor (1994)

Dr. Sherwin B. Nuland was born Shepsel Ber Nudelman on December 8, 1930 in the Bronx, New York. He received a bachelor's degree from New York University in 1951 and a medical degree from Yale University in 1955. He decided to specialize in surgery and in 1958, became the chief surgical resident at Yale-New Haven Hospital. From 1962 to 1991, he was a clinical professor of surgery at Yale University, where he also taught bioethics and medical history. Before retiring to write full-time, he was a surgeon at Yale-New Haven Hospital from 1962 to 1992. His books include Doctors: The Biography of Medicine, The Wisdom of the Body, The Doctors' Plague, The Uncertain Art, and the memoir Lost in America. His book, How We Die, won the National Book Award for nonfiction in 1994. He was also a contributing editor to The American Scholar and The New Republic. He died of prostate cancer on March 3, 2014 at the age of 83.

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TitluHow We Die
AutorSherwin B. Nuland
EditorChatto & Windus, 1994
Exemplar original de laIndiana University
Scanată la3 oct. 2008
ISBN0701161698, 9780701161699
Lungime278 pagini
  
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