How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter
Attempting 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.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Year
- 1995
- ISBN-13
- 9780679742449
- Genre
- Science & Technology
- Topics
- Death and dyingMedicineTerminal illness
Awards
- National Book Award for NonfictionWonMajor(1994)
- Pulitzer Prize for General NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1995)
- National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1994)
Other awarded books from Sherwin B. Nuland
- The Mysteries Within: A Surgeon Explores Myth, Medicine, and the Human Body
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