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MuzeFormatDesc: Audio Cassette
ISBN-10: 0743500091
ISBN-13: 9780743500098
Apr 2007
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Language: English |
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Synopsis
A surgeon guides readers on an unconventional tour of the human body, examining the intersection of folklore and scientific interpretation throughout the history of Western medicine. Balancing playful anecdotes with detailed anatomical clarifications, this book probes both the mythology and science of specific internal organs, and examines the need for debunking such myths while understanding their origins. A New York Times Notable Book for 2000.
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "Each of our internal organs has a personality of its own, and a mythology too."
Industry Reviews
"In [this book], Sherwin B. Nuland, a professor of surgery at Yale and the author of the best-selling HOW WE DIE, chronicles some of the ideas, many of them laughable that have been held about human organs in 2 1/2 millennia of recorded history. He intersperses these chronicles with exciting clinical stories from his own lengthy surgical career....With its multiple stories, [this book] may lack a certain unity of conception, but it does remind us--often in a graceful manner--that our current state of medical enlightenment is comparatively recent."
Dalrymple
"That this collectively odd history, with all its wonder, is in fact the history of medical science today becomes eloquently apparent. But this is a book more than medicine. It is also about the rise of Western thought, the ways in which the past inhabits us, and a powerful reminder that we do have a history, however ignorant of its workings we may be....Nuland is a gifted and deeply intelligent writer with the rare ability to synthesize the densest history and the living present."
San Francisco Chronicle - Frank Huyler (02/27/2000)
"Nuland is...a member of that rare breed of scientist who can not only communicate with nonspecialists but sing to them through taut, shimmering prose. This man cuts people open for a living, and yet he has the ability to write about those feats so heartily, so invitingly that you almost feel like saying, 'Yes, cut here; operate on me, if you'd like.' In other words, Nuland is brilliant in many, many ways."
Ruminator Review - John Steingraeber
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