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How We Live

by Sherwin B Nuland

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Having won the National Book Award for How We Die, his best-selling inquiry into the causes and modes of death, Sherwin Nuland now turns his attention to the miraculous resiliency of human life.  For this lucid, wonderful, and wonder-filled new book explores the body's mysterious capacity to marshal disparate organs and processes in the interests of survival.

Like its predecessor, How We Live is filled with gripping medical case histories: a woman is pulled back from the brink of death from inexplicable internal bleeding; another patient triumphs over breast cancer; the "routine" removal of a polyp triggers a nearly lethal medical crisis.  For Nuland, each of these cases serves to illustrate the extraordinary responsiveness and adaptability of the human organism.  We learn how the aorta's baroreceptors monitor blood pressure and respond to its minutest fluctuations.  We follow the intricate chain of electrochemical command that makes us leap out of the path of a speeding car. We discover why the stomach--which is capable of breaking down everything from porridge to pizza--refrains from digesting itself.  Informed by sympathy for human suffering and an erudition that includes poetry and the Talmud as well as the medical canon, How We Live is science writing of the rarest kind--lucid, poetic, and genuinely uplifting.

Originally published under the title The Wisdom of the Body

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Table of Contents

Note to the Vintage Edition

1. The Will to Live

2. The Constant Sea Within Maintains the Constancy Within

3. Of Nymphs, Lymph, and Courage in the Face of Cancer

4. Sympathy and the Nervous System

5. The Fundamental Unit of Life: The Cell

6. Biology, Destiny, and Free Will

7. The Act of Love

8. A Child is Born

9. The Heart of the Matter

10. The Blood Is Life

11. A Voyage Through the Gut

12. Mining the Mind: The Brain and Human Nature

Epilogue

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Product Details

ISBN:

9780679781400

Author:

Nuland, Sherwin B.

Publisher:

Vintage Books

Author:

Nuland, Sherwin B.

Location:

New York :

Subject:

Biology

Subject:

Diseases

Subject:

Physiology

Subject:

Human Physiology

Subject:

Human biology

Subject:

Body, human

Subject:

Human physiology -- Popular works.

Subject:

Life Sciences - Human Anatomy & Physiology

Subject:

Body, Human -- Popular works.

Subject:

Health and Medicine-Anatomy and Physiology

Copyright:

1998

Edition Number:

1

Edition Description:

Trade paper

Series:

Vintage

Publication Date:

19980531

Binding:

TRADE PAPER

Grade Level:

General/trade

Language:

English

Illustrations:

Yes

Pages:

432

Dimensions:

8 x 5.1 x 0.9 in 0.65 lb

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