How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter

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Paw Prints, 1995 - Science - 296 pages
Presents a meditation and portrait of the experience of dying that elucidates the decisions that can be made to allow each person an understanding of death, as well as his or her own choice of death

About the author (1995)

Sherwin B. Nuland is the author of the best-selling "How We Die," which won the 1994 National Book Award for Nonfiction, "The Mysteries Within: A Surgeon Reflects on Medical Myth," "The Biography of Medicine," & "The Wisdom of the Body," recently published in paperback as "How We Live." He is Clinical Professor of Surgery at Yale University, where he also teaches medical history & bioethics. He lives in Hamden, Connecticut.

Bibliographic information

TitleHow We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter
AuthorSherwin B. Nuland
Editionreprint
PublisherPaw Prints, 1995
ISBN1439505187, 9781439505182
Length296 pages
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Science / Life Sciences / Anatomy & Physiology
  
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