Sherwin Nuland
| Sherwin B. Nuland | |
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| Born | Shepsel Ber Nudelman December 8, 1930 The Bronx, New York, USA |
| Died | March 3, 2014 (aged 83) Hamden, Connecticut, USA Prostate cancer |
| Citizenship | American |
| Fields | Surgeon, writer, educator |
| Institutions | Yale School of Medicine |
| Alma mater |
Bronx High School of Science New York University Yale School of Medicine |
| Known for | How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter |
| Notable awards | 1994 National Book Award |
| Spouse | Rhona - divorced Sarah Peterson (m. 1977) |
| Children | Victoria, Drew, Amelia, and William |
Sherwin Bernard Nuland (born Shepsel Ber Nudelman; December 8, 1930 – March 3, 2014) was an American surgeon and writer who taught bioethics, history of medicine, and medicine at the Yale 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.
Nuland was born Shepsel Ber Nudelman in The Bronx, New York City, on December 8, 1930, to immigrant Ukrainian Jewish parents Meyer (a garment repairman) and Vitsche Nudelman.
Although raised in a traditional Orthodox Jewish home, he came to consider himself agnostic, but continued to attend synagogue. As a Lithuanian Jew, he witnessed anti-Semitic discrimination against his cousin and changed his name when he applied to college to ensure admittance.
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