Sherwin B. Nuland
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Sherwin Nuland (born December 1930) is an American surgeon who teaches bioethics and medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine, where he obtained his M.D. degree. He is the author of The New York Times bestseller and National Book Award winning How We Die, and has also written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, The New Republic, Time, and the New York Review of Books. He is also the father of the current U.S. ambassador to NATO, Victoria Nuland.
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[edit] Personal life
Nuland was born in New York City in December of 1930 to immigrant Jewish parents Meyer and Vitsche Nudelman. His father arrived from a small Russian town, Bessarabia, in 1907 when he was still in his teens. Sherwin and his older brother Harvey officially changed their surname from Nudelman to Nuland on October 17, 1947. Although raised in a traditional Orthodox Jewish home, Sherwin now considers himself agnostic, but continues to attend synagogue.
Sherwin is a graduate of New York University and Yale Medical School. He was married twice, has four children, 2 from each marriage, and currently resides in Connecticut with his children and wife Sara.
[edit] Books
- Doctors: The Biography of Medicine
- The Wisdom of the Body
- The Mysteries Within
- Lost in America: A Journey with My Father
- The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis
- How We Die
- How We Live
- Maimonides (Jewish Encounters)
- Leonardo Da Vinci (Penguin Lives)
[edit] References
- Nuland, Sherwin B. (2003), Lost in America: A Journey with My Father
