Sherwin B. Nuland | |
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| Born | Shepsel Ber Nudelman December 8, 1930 New York City, U.S. |
| Died | March 3, 2014 (aged 83) Hamden, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Bronx High School of Science New York University Yale School of Medicine |
| Known for | How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter |
| Spouses |
Sarah Peterson (m. 1977) |
| Children | 4, including Victoria |
| Awards | 1994 National Book Award |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Surgeon, writer, educator |
| Institutions | Yale School of Medicine |
Sherwin Bernard Nuland[1] (born Shepsel Ber Nudelman; December 8, 1930 – March 3, 2014) was an American surgeon and writer who taught bioethics, history of medicine, and medicine at the Yale School of Medicine, and occasionally bioethics and history of medicine at Yale College. His 1994 book How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter was a New York Times Best Seller and won the National Book Award for Nonfiction,[2] as well as being a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
In 2011 Nuland was awarded the Jonathan Rhoads Gold Medal of the American Philosophical Society, for “Distinguished Service to Medicine.”[3]
Nuland wrote non-academic articles for The New Yorker, The New York Times, The New Republic, Time, MIT Technology Review and the New York Review of Books. He was a fellow of the Hastings Center, an independent bioethics research institution.[4]
He is the father of Victoria Nuland, who served as under secretary of State for Political Affairs from 2021 to 2024.
- ^ Yale School of Medicine biography page Archived March 4, 2014, at archive.today
- ^ "National Book Awards – 1994". National Book Foundation. Retrieved March 24, 2012.
- ^ "Sherwin Nuland | Branford College". Branford.yalecollege.yale.edu. Retrieved December 17, 2015.
- ^ The Hastings Center Archived May 9, 2016, at the Wayback Machine Hastings Center Fellows. Retrieved November 6, 2010.