How We Die: Reflections Of Life'S Final Chapter, New Edition

How We Die: Reflections Of Life'S Final Chapter, New Edition

New Edition: With a new chapter addressing contemporary issues in end-of-life careA runaway bestseller and National Book Award winner, Sherwin Nuland's How We Die has become the definitive text on perhaps the single most universal human concern: death.?This new edition includes an all-embracing and incisive afterword that examines the current state of health care and our relationship with life as it approaches its terminus.?It also discusses how we can take control of our own final days and those of our loved ones.Shewin Nuland's masterful How We Die is even more relevant than when it was first published.From Publishers WeeklyThe 1994 NBA nonfiction winner, Yale physician Nuland's study of the clinical, biological and emotional details of dying was a 14-week PW bestseller.Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.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?rom the Inside FlapAttempting to demythologize the process of dying, Nuland explores how we shall die, each of us in a way that will be unique. Through particular stories of dying--of patients, and of his own family--he examines the seven most common roads to death: old age, cancer, AIDS, Alzheimer's, accidents, heart disease, and strokes, revealing the facets of death's multiplicity."It's impossible to readHow We Die without realizing how earnestly we have avoided this most unavoidable of subjects, how we have protected ourselves by building a cultural wall of myths and lies. I don't know of any writer or scientist who has shown us the face of death as clearly, honestly and compassionately as Sherwin Nuland does here."--James GleickFrom the Back CoverAttempting to demythologize the process of dying, Nuland explores how we shall die, each of us in a way that will be unique. Through particular stories of dying--of patients, and of his own family--he examines the seven most common roads to death: old age, cancer, AIDS, Alzheimer's, accidents, heart disease, and strokes, revealing the facets of death's multiplicity."It's impossible to read How We Die without realizing how earnestly we have avoided this most unavoidable of subjects, how we have protected ourselves by building a cultural wall of myths and lies. I don't know of any writer or scientist who has shown us the face of death as clearly, honestly and compassionately as Sherwin Nuland does here."--James GleickAbout the AuthorSherwin B. Nuland, MD, was Clinical Professor of Surgery at Yale University until his retirement in 2009, though he continues to teach Biomedical Ethics and Medical History to Yale undergraduates, and serve the university in various capacities.?He won the National Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Book Critics Circle Award when this book was initially published.?In hardcover and paperback,How We Die was on theNew York Times bestseller list for a total of thirty-four weeks, and has been translated into twenty-nine languages.?Dr. Nuland and his family live in Connecticut.