New Edition With a new chapter addressing contemporary issues in end-of-life careA runaway bestseller and National Book Award winner, Sherwin Nuland's "How We Die" has become the definitive text on perhaps the single most universal human concern: death. This new edition includes an all-embracing and[...]

An analysis of nineteenth-century Viennese doctor Ignac Semmelweis's reforms of the medical establishment describes his discovery of the correlation between hand washing and reduced infection, recounting how his early work contributed to the subsequent establishment of germ theory. Reprint. 20,000 f[...]

Having won the National Book Award for How We Die," " his best-selling inquiry into the causes and modes of death, Sherwin Nuland now turns his attention to the miraculous resiliency of human life. For this lucid, wonderful, and wonder-filled new book explores the body's mysterious capacity to marsh[...]

In his landmark book "How We Die," Sherwin B. Nuland profoundly altered our perception of the end of life. Now in "The Art of Aging," Dr. Nuland steps back to explore the impact of aging on our minds and bodies, strivings and relationships. Melding a scientist's passion for truth with a humanist's u[...]