by Sherwin B. Nuland · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099767619
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«How We Live» is Sherwin B. Nuland's medical popular science essay, published by Vintage in paperback (416 pages, in English).
The book explains, in an accessible way, how the human body carries out essential functions to stay alive. Sherwin B. Nuland answers basic questions such as where the spleen is or what the thyroid does, describes the body's major systems, and shows the defense and self-regulation strategies that enable survival.
The subtitle of the work is The Wisdom of the Body; this Vintage edition was published on May 7, 1998.
For readers interested in medical popular science and understanding the human body without prior knowledge of anatomy.
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Sherwin Bernard Nuland was an American surgeon and writer who taught bioethics, history of medicine, and medicine at the Yale School of Medicine, and occasionally bioethics and history of medicine at Yale College. His 1994 book How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter was a New York Times Best Seller and won the National Book Award for Nonfiction, as well as being a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
