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How We Live

by Sherwin B. Nuland
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How We Live
How We Live

Awe-filled medicine about the body’s will

This is the kind of science writing that makes your own body feel miraculous. Nuland blends dramatic real-life medical cases with clear, humane explanations, so you come away understanding not just how we survive, but how astonishingly hard the body fights for us. If you like nonfiction that is intelligent, compassionate, and quietly uplifting, this can be a deeply rewarding read.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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How We Live

by Sherwin B. Nuland
$9.90
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ISBN: 9780679781400
Authors: Sherwin B. Nuland
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Date of Publication: 1998-05-26
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Biographies & Memoirs, Philosophy, Science, Personal Development
Related Topics: Health, Medicine, Medical, Biology, Memoir, Personal Development
Goodreads rating: 3.85
(rated by 352 readers)

Description

Having won the National Book Award for How We Die, his best-selling inquiry into the causes and modes of death, Sherwin Nuland turns his attention to the miraculous resiliency of human life. This lucid and wonder-filled book explores the body's capacity to marshal disparate organs and processes in the interests of survival. Case studies include a woman pulled back from the brink of death after inexplicable internal bleeding; another patient triumphs over breast cancer; the routine removal of a polyp triggers a nearly lethal medical crisis. Each case illustrates 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 chain of electrochemical commands that make us leap out of the path of a speeding car. We discover why the stomach, 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.
 

Awe-filled medicine about the body’s will

This is the kind of science writing that makes your own body feel miraculous. Nuland blends dramatic real-life medical cases with clear, humane explanations, so you come away understanding not just how we survive, but how astonishingly hard the body fights for us. If you like nonfiction that is intelligent, compassionate, and quietly uplifting, this can be a deeply rewarding read.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.