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Title: The Mysteries Within: A Surgeon Explores Myth, Medicine, and the Human Body by Sherwin B. Nuland ISBN: 0-684-85487-2 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 06 March, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.71 (14 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A great read, and a great addition to Nuland's work
Comment: Dr. Nuland's way with the English language is as eloquent as the topic of discussion in his newest work.
This book is not so much an exploration of "The Body," as it is an exploration of the actual ways Medicine has sought to explore its own discipline.
It is a fantastic, but all too short trip into the great minds of Medical thinkers, including Nuland himself, and the ways in which they have accelerated its progress; indeed, it also makes light of the ways, doctors, have stifled it.
It is, very much, vintage Nuland -with its prose, and offerings of philosophical insight. But it is not like his other books -he doesn't deal with life and the body as in his other achievements. But, if you like Medical history; if you like knowing about the ways some of our most sacred accomplishments in the field came about, then buy this book.
Rating: 3
Summary: Brilliant concept, but poorly executed...
Comment: I love Nuland's writing, and could spend hours meandering through his explanations of medical phenomena. But this particular book was either poorly conceived or shoddily edited, because I found it much more difficult to get through than his usual lively mix of clinical experience and academic background.
There's just no balance here. That usually-delightful mix is completely absent, traded in for clumps of one or the other. He'll give a couple of tantalizingly tabloid case histories, some personal information about his own medical training, then chapters and chapters of academic detail. It just doesn't work for me.
Still fascinating as a glimpse of where medical thought is coming from, and as usual, Nuland is brilliant at pointing out the vestiges of old ideas and anachronisms even within modern medicine. But as the title suggests, this really is a surgeon "reflecting," with seemingly no particular direction, intention, or goal.
Too bad, though, because there's a lot of fascinating potential here.
Rating: 4
Summary: A History of Medical Thought and Lore
Comment: "The Mysteries Within" is a book about the myths that have developed in medicine over the last several millenia. In it Dr. Nuland discusses the evolution of thought concerning various organs. He also goes into detail describing where some modern words and expressions have come from. Interspersed with these histories are an occasional jewel from his career as a surgeon. Overall it is a good book, although it seems slightly slow at times.
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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: How We Live by SHERWIN B. NULAND ISBN: 0679781404 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 26 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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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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