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Title: How We Live by Sherwin B. Nuland ISBN: 0-679-78140-4 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 26 May, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.9 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Do some proper wondering...
Comment: "No matter how similar our parts to those of other animals, there are to be found within them some characteristics that make us uniquely human." (from the Introduction).
The human body.
We all have one. If you're reading this, you have one! What could be more interesting than finding out more about it? How it works? How it fails us at times? And "why" it does both?
Well, Dr. Nuland is an expert in this field, and his book about the human body is just fantastic, I was thoroughly enthralled by it, from cover to cover. Just when the textbook-style facts verged on becoming tedious, Nuland would sensitively lace (suture?) everything together with a true-to-life surgical story that not only drove home the facts, but kept me in suspense... flipping the pages like it was a novel.
One of my specialties is being critical, and yet I cannot find a bad thing to say about this book.
Did you know that every time your heart beats, it is forcing blood into a network of arteries, veins, and capillaries that extend for tens of thousands of miles within your body? That's right... TENS of thousands! ...Of miles! Think about it. Did you know that if your folded-up brain were spread out, it would cover two-and-a-half square feet, and within this space are ten billion neurons and sixty trillion synapse connections? (Hey Mr. Gates... Pentium-Shmentium!)
Did you know that the human skin contains 2.5 million sweat glands?
Neither did I. But with this book you learn so much. Like, for instance, a sure-fire way to memorize the ten chemicals that make up the human body.
But "How We Live" is not just some sort of compendium of biological facts, it is an exciting journey through real life situations that we can all relate to or at least sympathize with. Some of the case histories here are just incredible.
Nuland covers everything from theories on the human spirit and the will to live, basic cell division, the reproductive act and system, the nerves and how they work, DNA and genetic structure, the heart, the digestive system, the brain, and how we think.
Did it bug me that Nuland (an agnostic) is not a creationist?
Sort of.
I am so 100% convinced that a real "living" God designed all that Nuland talks about in this book. So it sometimes bothered me to hear him attribute so much wonderful intricacy to the specious powers of evolution/natural selection. But I greatly appreciated his comment in the final chapter, where he said that, in the final analysis, "to espouse atheism is to be unscientific."
Read the book to find out what this veteran medical scientist means by that statement.
Read this book to find out what Ralph Waldo Emerson meant when he said:
"One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as to take the lustre out of all fiction."
Read this book and nod your head in agreement with St. Augustine, who said:
"Men go forth to wonder at the heights of mountains, the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow of the rivers, the vast compass of the ocean, the course of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering." (From Confessions, Book X, chapter 8).
Read How We Live, and do some proper wondering.
Rating: 5
Summary: An outstanding book
Comment: Dr. Nuland has written a well constructed book that leads the reader through a bit of anatomy, together with helpful discussions of the Greek and Latin words behind the anatomical names. However, the main focus is on how the body strives to maintain health and how the emergent phenomena of 'Human Spirit' plays into that maintenance. Contrary to the impressions from earlier reviewers, I found this book to be extremely well written, and carefully constructed so that the reader is exposed to the nature of the material in a well ordered way. I loved his writing style, I loved the emotion behind the stories he told, and I appreciate his struggles with how the human spirit could emerge from the chaos of evolution. I highly recommend this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Like an adventure novel
Comment: I enjoyed Nuland's book. For those who know a little, or a lot, about anatomy and physiology, this is an excellent read. Nuland has a passion for his work as a surgeon and a talent to make the complex understandable. His philosophical expository is punctuated with real life cases.
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Title: How We Die : Reflections on Life's Final Chapter by Sherwin B. Nuland ISBN: 0679742441 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 15 January, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Doctors : The Biography of Medicine by Sherwin B. Nuland ISBN: 0679760091 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 15 January, 1995 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Lost in America: A Journey with My Father by Sherwin B. Nuland ISBN: 0375412948 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 07 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis (Great Discoveries) by Sherwin B. Nuland ISBN: 0393052990 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Second Opinions: Stories of Intuition and Choice in the Changing World of Medicine by Jerome, M.D. Groopman ISBN: 0140298622 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 27 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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