Sherwin B. Nuland

Sherwin B. Nuland ( born December 8, 1930 in New York; † March 3, 2014 in Hamden, Connecticut) was an American physician, surgeon, professor of history of medicine at Yale University ( School of Medicine ) and non-fiction author.

Life

Sherwin B. Nuland (originally Shepsel Ber Nudelman ) was born in 1930 in the Bronx, New York City, the youngest of the three sons of Jewish immigrants Meyer Nudelman and his wife Vitsche. The parents in the early 20th century from Bessarabia, which belonged at that time to (Russia), immigrated to the United States. In October 1947 were officially change their name to " Nuland " Sherwin and his older brother Harvey. He grew up with a traditional Orthodox Jewish upbringing.

After graduating from the Bronx High School of Science Nuland studied medicine, first at New York University, then at the Yale School of Medicine. From 1962 he practiced and taught at Yale - New Haven Hospital ( YNHH ) in New Haven. During this time, he already wrote nonfiction ( Doctors: The Biography of Medicine, 1988). From 1992 he turned to all the literary work.

Nuland was living with his second wife Sarah ( née Peterson ) in Connecticut. He is the father of four children. A daughter is the diplomat Victoria Nuland.

Nuland was a member of the American Skeptics Society, a society which promotes scientific and skeptical thinking.

Importance

The author of How We Die explained to a broad public, which hardly anyone knows even in the 90's about the end of life. He writes against the often encountered mythologizing of dying by pointing factually to the triviality and normality of some processes die. He always takes into account the personality and dignity of the patient - even when dying, in his view, too often takes place without dignity. Nuland writes about the different kinds of death and dying in heart attack, cancer, stroke and Alzheimer's.

Writings

  • (1994 ) How we die. One end with dignity? From the American Enrico Heinemann and Reinhard Tiffert; Kindler Verlag, Munich: 400 S. As TB 1996 ISBN 342677237X. Title of the original edition: How We Die. Reflections on Life's Final Chapter. Original Publisher: Alfred A Knopf, New York - 1994 for winners in the category Non-Fiction ( Nonfiction ) of the U.S. National Book Award
  • (1997) How we live. The miracle of the human organism. Translator's Sebastian Vogel; Kindler, Munich: 512 S. 47th - ISBN 3463403218
  • (2006) Ignaz Semmelweis. Doctor and of great explorers. Munich: Piper. ISBN 3-492-04825-0
  • (2007) to age the art. Wisdom and dignity of late years. DVA. Munich. 336 pages, ISBN 3421059322nd Werner scooter, translation. ( English by Vintage Books, 2007 ISBN 1400064775 - The Art of Aging: . A Doctor 's Prescription for Well -Being )

Not translated into German title:

  • Doctor's: The Biography of Medicine
  • The Wisdom of the Body
  • The Mysteries Within
  • The Doctors ' Plague
  • Maimonides (Jewish Encounters )
  • Leonardo Da Vinci ( Penguin Lives ) been translated
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