by Sherwin B. Nuland · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780679781400
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«How We Live» is the scientific essay by Sherwin B. Nuland, published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group in paperback (432 pages, in English).
Sherwin B. Nuland explores the astonishing capacity of the human body to coordinate organs and processes in order to survive. Through real medical cases, he shows how the organism regulates blood pressure, reacts to danger, and prevents the stomach from digesting itself, revealing the resilience of life.
Work originally published under the title «The Wisdom of the Body». Sherwin B. Nuland is also the author of «How We Die», a work awarded the National Book Award.
Popular science work for the general public interested in the science of the human body and medicine.
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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.
