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  2. Sherwin B. Nuland - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. The Soul of Medicine - Wikipedia

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    Synopsis. This collection of anecdotes, written by Sherwin B. Nuland, portrays different doctors from an array of specialties that each write about their most memorable patient. The medicine spoken about in this book is from an earlier era, which shows the best and the worst moments of many surgeons and doctors.

  4. Paul Kalanithi - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Electroconvulsive therapy - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Victoria Nuland - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. National Book Award for Nonfiction - Wikipedia

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    The award is $10,000 and a bronze sculpture; other finalists get $1000, a medal, and a citation written by the panel. [4] The sculpture by Louise Nevelson dates from the 1980 awards. [ 5 ] The $10,000 and $1000 cash prizes and autumn recognition for current-year publications date from 1984.

  9. List of new religious movements - Wikipedia

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    A new religious movement (NRM) is a religious, ethical, or spiritual group or community with practices of relatively modern [clarification needed] origins. NRMs may be novel in origin or they may exist on the fringes of a wider religion, in which case they will be distinct from pre-existing denominations.