Sherwin B. Nuland

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Sherwin Bernard Nuland (* as Shepsel Ber Nudelman on December 8, 1930 in New York ; † March 3, 2014 in Hamden , Connecticut ) was an American doctor , surgeon , professor of medical history at Yale University (School of Medicine) and Non-fiction author .

Life

Sherwin B. Nuland (originally: Shepsel Ber Nudelman) was born in 1930 in the Bronx , New York City, the youngest of the three sons of the Jewish immigrant Meyer Nudelman and his wife Vitsche. The parents immigrated to the USA from Bessarabia , which at that time belonged to ( Russia ). In October 1947, Sherwin and his older brother Harvey officially changed their names to "Nuland". He grew up with a traditional Orthodox Jewish upbringing .

After graduating from the Bronx High School of Science , Nuland studied medicine , first at New York University , then at the Yale School of Medicine . From 1962 he practiced and taught at Yale-New Haven Hospital (YNHH) in New Haven . During this time he was already writing non-fiction books ( Doctors: The Biography of Medicine , 1988). From 1992 he turned completely to literary creation.

Nuland lived in Connecticut with his second wife, Sarah (née Peterson) . He is the father of four children. One daughter is the diplomat Victoria Nuland .

Nuland was a member of the American Skeptics Society , a society that advocates scientific and skeptical thinking.

meaning

The author of How We Die explained to the general public what hardly anyone knew about the end of life even in the 90s . He writes against the mythologization of dying , which is often encountered , by objectively pointing out the triviality and normality of some of the processes involved in dying. He always takes into account the personality and dignity of the patient - even if, in his opinion, death too often takes place without dignity. Nuland writes about the different types of death and dying from heart attacks , cancer , strokes and Alzheimer's .

Fonts

  • How we die An end with dignity? From the American by Enrico Heinemann and Bernhard Tiffert. Kindler Verlag, Munich 1994, (paperback: Droemer Knaur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-426-77237-X , and ibid 2007) Original edition: How We Die. Reflections on Life's Final Chapter. Alfred A. Knopf, New York 1994 - Winner in the non-fiction category of the US National Book Award .
  • How we live The miracle of the human organism. Translated by Sebastian Vogel. Kindler, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-463-40321-8 , p. 47.
  • Ignaz Semmelweis. Doctor and great explorer. Piper, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-492-04825-0 .
  • The art of aging. Wisdom and dignity of the later years. Werner Roller, translation. DVA. Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-421-05932-1 . English: The Art of Aging: A Doctor's Prescription for Well-Being. Vintage Books, 2007, ISBN 978-1-4000-6477-9 .
  • Leonardo da Vinci (= Biographical Passions. ) Translated from the English by Jürgen Charnitzky. Claassen, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-546-00260-1 . Original title: Leonardo Da Vinci (= Penguin lives series.) Viking Penguin, New York 2000, ISBN = 0-14-303510-X.

Titles not translated into German:

  • Doctor's: The Biography of Medicine.
  • The Wisdom of the Body.
  • The Mysteries Within.
  • The Doctors' Plague.
  • Maimonides (Jewish Encounters).
  • Lost in America: A Journey with My Father. 2003.

literature

  • Denise Gellene: Sherwin B. Nuland, Author of 'How We Die,' Is Dead at 83. In: The New York Times . March 4, 2014, ISSN  0362-4331 nytimes.com .
  • Emily Langer: Sherwin B. Nuland, surgeon and writer who demystified death, dies at 83. In: The Washington Post. March 5, 2014 ( online version ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ In Lost in America, a Yale surgeon opens up memories of his father. In: Yalemedicine. 2003.
  2. ↑ a b Writing books on medicine can be therapy. In: Jerusalem Post. January 13, 2007.
  3. ^ TEDMED: Sherwin B. Nuland
personal data
SURNAME Nuland, Sherwin B.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nuland, Sherwin Bernard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physician, surgeon, and medical professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 2014
Place of death Hamden , Connecticut