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"An anatomy of human life, vividly illustrated. . . . Awe-inspiring [and] sublimely uplifting."
Cirujano, erudito y autor de libros de Ă©xito, Sherwin B. Nuland es uno de nuestros mejores cronistas de la historia de la medicina. Obsesionado durante veinticinco años con la enigmática historia de Ignác Semmelweis, Nuland nos la cuenta con el rigor que le proporcionan sus propios estudios y su experiencia clĂnica.Ignác Semmelweis es recordado por la idea, ahora asumida, de que los mĂ©dicos han de lavarse las manos antes de examinar a sus pacientes. Sin embargo, en la Viena de mediados del siglo XIX, Ă©sta era una idea subversiva. Enfrentado a una explosiĂłn de muertes provocadas por la fiebre puerperal, Semmelweis descubriĂł que los propios mĂ©dicos eran los responsables de la transmisiĂłn de la enfermedad. Mientras que sus sencillas reformas obtuvieron resultados inmediatos, tambiĂ©n supusieron una amenaza para el establishment mĂ©dico. En aquella Ă©poca, los microbios aĂşn no eran ampliamente conocidos como vectores de enfermedades, y muchos mĂ©dicos ridiculizaron la nociĂłn de que la falta de higiene de las manos fuera responsable de la muerte de las pacientes. Condenado al ostracismo por sus colegas, el Dr. Semmelweis acabĂł ingresado en un manicomio, donde fue sistemáticamente molido a palos por sus guardianes hasta que muriĂł de sus heridas infectadas.
What happens to us as we die? Discover the answers in this exclusive 25th anniversary edition of Sherwin B Nuland’s seminal book With a foreword by Paul Kalanithi, bestselling author of When Breath Becomes Air. There are many books intended to help people deal with the trauma of bereavement, but few which explore the reality of death itself. Sherwin B. Nuland - with over thirty years' experience as a surgeon - explains in detail the processes which take place in the body and strips away many illusions about death. The result is a unique and compelling book, addressing the one final fact that all of us must confront. '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 Gleick, author of Chaos
Surgeon, scholar, best-selling author, Sherwin B. Nuland tells the strange story of Ignac Semmelweis with urgency and the insight gained from his own studies and clinical experience. Ignac Semmelweis is remembered for the now-commonplace notion that doctors must wash their hands before examining patients. In mid-nineteenth-century Vienna, however, this was a subversive idea. With deaths from childbed fever exploding, Semmelweis discovered that doctors themselves were spreading the disease. While his simple reforms worked immediately childbed fever in Vienna all but disappeared they brought down upon Semmelweis the wrath of the establishment, and led to his tragic end."
In his landmark book "How We Die," Sherwin B. Nuland profoundly
altered our perception of the end of life. Now in "The Art of
Aging," Dr. Nuland steps back to explore the impact of aging on our
minds and bodies, strivings and relationships. Melding a
scientist's passion for truth with a humanist's understanding of
the heart and soul, Nuland has created a wise, frank, and inspiring
book about the ultimate stage of life's journey. "From the Hardcover edition."
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.
From over 300 essays the late Dr. Massey wrote between 1973 and 2005 for his popular monthly columns in Connecticut Medicine, the state medical journal, the seventy in this collection best demonstrate his breadth of scholarship, concerns about medicine, and skills as a writer and teacher. For ease of reading, the articles are organized into eleven sections by topic, such as the care of patients, medical education, growing old, death and dying, technology, ethics and morality, and the history of medicine. As timely as they are important, these essays lend themselves to discussions in medical schools and other teaching institutions, address issues physicians in practice face almost daily, and provide a touchstone for all citizens concerned about the practice of humanistic medicine today.
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.
Moses Maimonides was a Renaissance man before there was a Renaissance: a great physician who served a sultan, a dazzling Torah scholar, a community leader, a daring philosopher whose greatest work----The Guide for the Perplexed----attempted to reconcile scientific knowledge with faith in God. He was a Jew living in a Muslim world, a rationalist living in a time of superstition. Eight hundred years after his death, his notions about God, faith, the afterlife, and the Messiah still stir debate; his life as a physician still inspires; and the enigmas of his character still fascinate. Sherwin B. Nuland----best-selling author of How We Die----focuses his surgeon's eye and writer's pen on this greatest of rabbis, most intriguing of Jewish philosophers, and most honored of Jewish doctors. He gives us a portrait of Maimonides that makes his life, his times, and his thought accessible to the general reader as they have never been before. From the Hardcover edition.
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.
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