Where is Wisdom? Restraint in a Time of Biomedical Miracles

Version: Unabridged
Author: Sherwin B. Nuland
Narrator: Sherwin B. Nuland
Genres: Science & Technology, Health and Medicine, Biology & Life Science, Lectures, Ethics, Science, Health
Publisher: Chautauqua Institution/ The Great Lecture Library
Published In: N/A
Length: 1 hour, 15 minutes
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Overview

Physician, surgeon, teacher, medical historian and best-selling author, Sherwin Nuland continues to enlighten audiences with his research, scholarship, philosophy and vision on the future of medicine. His most recent book Leonardo da Vinci, completes Nuland's twenty-year quest to understand an unlettered man who was painter, architect, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and scientist.

Author Details

Author Details

Nuland, Sherwin B.

Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D., F.A.C.S., is clinical professor of surgery at Yale School of Medicine, where he has taught since 1962. "How We Die" was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His most recent book is "The Wisdom of the Body, " published in paperback as "How We Live."