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"An anatomy of human life, vividly illustrated. . . . Awe-inspiring [and] sublimely uplifting".
--Time
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 marshal disparate organs and processes in the interests of survival.
Like its predecessor, "How We Live" is filled with gripping medical case histories: a woman is pulled back from the brink of death from inexplicable internal bleeding; another patient triumphs over breast cancer; the "routine" removal of a polyp triggers a nearly lethal medical crisis. For Nuland, each of these cases serves to illustrate the extraordinary responsiveness and adaptability of the human organism. We learn how the aorta's baroreceptors monitor blood pressure and respond to its minutest fluctuations. We follow the intricate chain of electrochemical command that makes us leap out of the path of a speeding car. We discover why the stomach--which is capable of breaking down everything from porridge to pizza--refrains from digesting itself. Informed by sympathy for human suffering and an erudition that includes poetry and the Talmud as well as the medical canon, "How We Live" is science writing of the rarest kind--lucid, poetic, and genuinely uplifting.
Originally published under the title "The Wisdom of the Body"
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"An anatomy of human life, vividly illustrated.... Awe-inspiring [and] sublimely uplifting." --Time
"Memorable.... A unique and worthy addition to the medical classics." --Boston Globe "Dramatic, lyrical.... The book is part medical thriller.... And part profession of faith in the beauty of human biology."--Wall Street JournalBook Description
The companion volume to HOW WE DIE, the international bestseller: but a book about life and how it works, instead of death.
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- PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0679781404
- ISBN 13 9780679781400
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages432
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