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Sherwin Bernard Nuland[ 1] (born Shepsel Ber Nudelman; December 8, 1930 – March 3, 2014) 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 ...
978-1-60714-055-9. The Soul of Medicine: Tales from the Bedside is a 2009 book by Sherwin B. Nuland. [ 1] It was first published on April 14, 2009, through Kaplan Publishing. [ 2]
Paul Kalanithi was born on April 1, 1977, and lived in Westchester, New York. He was born to a Christian family hailing from Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, India. Kalanithi had two brothers, Jeevan and Suman; Jeevan is a computer / robotics engineer and Suman is a neurologist. The family moved from Bronxville, New York, to Kingman, Arizona ...
Electroconvulsive therapy ( ECT) or electroshock therapy ( EST) is a psychiatric treatment where a generalized seizure (without muscular convulsions) is electrically induced to manage refractory mental disorders. [ 1] Typically, 70 to 120 volts are applied externally to the patient's head, resulting in approximately 800 milliamperes of direct ...
As Emanuel Papper and Sherwin Nuland point out, "The contrast between the sunken eyes of Coleridge, the victim of rheumatic fever and its attendant pain, with the eyes of healthy boys at play was a poignant one and for the sick boy an unforgettable, unpleasant experience. The tyranny of pain was dominant, and it removed all possible pleasure ...
0-670-84183-8. Listening to Prozac: A Psychiatrist Explores Antidepressant Drugs and the Remaking of the Self is a book written by psychiatrist Peter D. Kramer. Written in 1993, the book discusses how the advance of the anti-depressant drug Prozac might change the way we see personality, the relationship between neurology and personality .
Sherwin B. Nuland: How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter: Winner [81] 1995 Tina Rosenberg: The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism: Winner [82] 1996 James Carroll: An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War that Came Between Us: Winner [83] 1997 Joseph J. Ellis: American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson ...
Drama. Music. v. t. e. The Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are awarded annually for the "Letters, Drama, and Music" category. The award is given to a nonfiction book written by an American author and published during the preceding calendar year that is ineligible for any other Pulitzer Prize.