Nuland, Sherwin B

The author chronicles the life of his father, a Russian Jew who came to New York at the turn of the century searching for a better life and instead finding frustration and tragedy; and examines their difficult relationship.

Through discussion of human biology and anatomy, explores the miracle of living and identifies the essence of human life as the human spirit which is inseparable from the body.

An examination of the machinery of life, looking at the different biological functions of the body,and providing medical case histories that illustrate the responsiveness and adaptability of the human body.

Dr. Sherwin B. Nuland provides an optimistic perspective on aging, discussing the bursts of creativity, perceptiveness, and spiritual intensity that often accompany aging and examining research into extending life.

Examines the work of Ignac Semmelweis, the doctor who discovered how childbed fever, an infection that killed one out of six pregnant mothers in the 1800s, was transmitted from doctor to patient but who wasn't taken seriously by the scientific community because of his abnormal personality and self-destructive habits.

Collection of stories of dying that reveal not only why someone dies but how.

Discusses the dying process, explaining how a variety of diseases and conditions affect the human body and relating some of the author's experiences with death.

Chronicles nineteenth-century Hungarian doctor Ign?c Semmelweis's discovery that physicians must wash their hands to prevent infection of patients, and his losing struggle with the ingrained medical establishment to make it change its practices.