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Sherwin B. Nuland

Date of Birth 08-December-1930
Place of Birth The Bronx
(United States of America, New York City, New York)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Sherwin Nuland, Dr. Sherwin Nuland, Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D.
Profession Scientist, Surgeon, Author, Professor, Educator, Writer
Sherwin Bernard Nuland was an American surgeon and writer who taught bioethics, history of medicine, and medicine at the Yale University 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, 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.” Nuland wrote non-academic articles for The New Yorker, The New York Times, The New Republic, Time, and the New York Review of Books. He was a fellow of the Hastings Center, an independent bioethics research institution.

Awards by Sherwin B. Nuland

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1995


Nominations 1995 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter

1994


National Book Award for Nonfiction
Honored for : How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter

Nominations 1994 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Nonfiction How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter
National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter