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Sherwin B. Nuland. 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 ...
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 Sudhir Arul Kalanithi (April 1, 1977 – March 9, 2015) was an American neurosurgeon and writer. His book When Breath Becomes Air is a memoir about his life and illness with stage IV metastatic lung cancer. It was posthumously published by Random House in January 2016. [1] It was on The New York Times Non-Fiction Best Seller list for ...
[1] In a review in the New York Review of Books, Sherwin B. Nuland said that Kramer has "played fast and loose with the most basic principles by which physicians evaluate clinical experience and propose new ways of explaining or treating illness. Those principles require (1) meticulous and personally made observations of an illness or ...
Robert Kagan ( / ˈkeɪɡən /; born September 26, 1958) is an American columnist and political scientist. He is a neoconservative [ 1] scholar. He is a critic of U.S. foreign policy and a leading advocate of liberal interventionism. [ 2][ 3] A co-founder of the neoconservative Project for the New American Century, [ 4][ 5][ 6] he is a senior ...
Also, the witnessing of others not suffering caused even more pain. 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 ...
Children. 5. Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis ( German: [ˈɪɡnaːts ˈzɛml̩vaɪs]; Hungarian: Semmelweis Ignác Fülöp [ˈsɛmmɛlvɛjs ˈiɡnaːts ˈfyløp]; 1 July 1818 – 13 August 1865) was a Hungarian physician and scientist of German descent, who was an early pioneer of antiseptic procedures, and was described as the "saviour of mothers". [ 2]
Victoria Jane Nuland (born July 1, 1961) is an American diplomat who served as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from 2021 to 2024. A former member of the US Foreign Service, she served as Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs from 2013 to 2017 and the 18th U.S. ambassador to NATO from 2005 to 2008.