by Sherwin B. Nuland · Hugh Lauter Levin Associates · tapa dura · ISBN 9780883633144
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«Medicine: The Art of Healing» is an illustrated book by Sherwin B. Nuland on the history of medicine, in hardcover (115 pages, in English).
Through paintings, manuscript illuminations and engravings, the work surveys how medicine has been represented over the centuries. The development of anatomical and scientific illustration and the work of physicians and surgeons unfold in a visual journey that links art with the practice of healing.
Published by Hugh Lauter Levin Associates in 1992, it is a large-format volume (approx. 23.5 x 31 cm) weighing about a kilo.
For readers interested in the history of medicine, scientific illustration and large-format art books.
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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.
