The Mysteries Within
by Sherwin B. Nuland
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Dr. Sherwin Nuland, author of the National Book Award-winning How We Die, once again combines knowledge, compassion, and elegance of expression to shed light on the workings of our bodies from the perspective of a surgeon. Dr. Nuland recounts age-old legends about the functions and "personalities" of the body's organs and, in riveting vignettes of the surgery he has performed, he describes the connections between myth and reality. A brilliant blend of science and folklore, The Mysteries show more Within reveals the enigmas not only of the body but also of the human imagination. show lessTags
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Dr. Sherwin Nuland, author of the National Book Award winning "How We Die", once again combines knowledge, compassion, and elegance of expression to shed light on the workings of our bodies from the perspective of a surgeon. Dr. Nuland recounts age-old legends about the functions and 'personalities' of the body's organs and, in riveting vignettes of the surgery he has performed, he describes the connections between myth and reality. A brilliant blend of science and folklore, The Mysteries Within reveals the enigmas not only of the body but also of the human imagination.
Fair, but I wasn't especially interested. He repeated himself a lot.
Hard to describe. It has to do with modern understanding of specific organs vs. pre-scientific misconceptions. He intersperses it with war stories from his 40 years as a surgeon.
Hard to describe. It has to do with modern understanding of specific organs vs. pre-scientific misconceptions. He intersperses it with war stories from his 40 years as a surgeon.
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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 show more 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. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- The Mysteries Within
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- The Mysteries Within
- Original publication date
- 2000
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