How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter

Nuland, Sherwin B.

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9781439505182: How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter

ISBN 10: 1439505187 ISBN 13: 9781439505182

The author of Doctors: The Biography of Medicine offers a portrait of the experience of dying that elucidates the choices that can be made to allow each person his or her own death. 50,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo. Tour.

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Review:

"Eloquent and uncommonly moving... Nuland writes with unsentimental passion."- "Time
""Engrossing... We are in the hands of a remarkable portraitist whose cultivated thought... quietly and informatively instructs and advises us on a subject of universal concern."- "The New York Times Book Review
""Nuland's work acknowledges, with unmatched clarity, the harsh realities of how life departs... There is compassion, and often wisdom, in every page."- "San Francisco Examiner
""Nuland combines the clinical eye of a physician with... emotional and philosophical reflectiveness."- "Newsday"

"Eloquent and uncommonly moving Nuland writes with unsentimental passion."- "Time
""Engrossing We are in the hands of a remarkable portraitist whose cultivated thought quietly and informatively instructs and advises us on a subject of universal concern."- "The New York Times Book Review
""Nuland's work acknowledges, with unmatched clarity, the harsh realities of how life departs There is compassion, and often wisdom, in every page."- "San Francisco Examiner
""Nuland combines the clinical eye of a physician with emotional and philosophical reflectiveness."- "Newsday"
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"Eloquent and uncommonly moving Nuland writes with unsentimental passion."- Time
"Engrossing We are in the hands of a remarkable portraitist whose cultivated thought quietly and informatively instructs and advises us on a subject of universal concern."- The New York Times Book Review
"Nuland's work acknowledges, with unmatched clarity, the harsh realities of how life departs There is compassion, and often wisdom, in every page."- San Francisco Examiner
"Nuland combines the clinical eye of a physician with emotional and philosophical reflectiveness."- Newsday

"Eloquent and uncommonly moving... Nuland writes with unsentimental passion."- Time

"Engrossing... We are in the hands of a remarkable portraitist whose cultivated thought... quietly and informatively instructs and advises us on a subject of universal concern."- The New York Times Book Review
"Nuland's work acknowledges, with unmatched clarity, the harsh realities of how life departs... There is compassion, and often wisdom, in every page."- San Francisco Examiner
"Nuland combines the clinical eye of a physician with... emotional and philosophical reflectiveness."- Newsday

About the Author:

Sherwin B. Nuland teaches surgery and the history of medicine at Yale University.

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