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Sherwin B. Nuland is Clinical Professor of Surgery and a Fellow of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale. He is the author of How We Die, which won the National Book Award in 1994, and Lost in America. (December 2005)
Killing Cures
Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine
by Andrew Scull
The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness
by Jack El-Hai
August 11, 2005 issue
Getting in Nature’s Way
The Pursuit of Perfection: The Promise and Perils of Medical Enhancement
by Sheila M. Rothman and David J. Rothman
February 12, 2004 issue
Whoops!
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
by Atul Gawande
July 18, 2002 issue
‘A Very Wide and Deep Dissection’
The Breast Cancer Wars: Hope, Fear, and the Pursuit of a Cure in Twentieth-Century America
by Barron H. Lerner
September 20, 2001 issue
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