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The Wisdom of the Body by  Sherwin Nuland - First Edition - 1997 - from abccbooks.com and Biblio.com
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A treatise on the physiology and meaning of the human body, written by the Yale professor of surgery whose previous work, "How We Die", won the National Book Award. Nuland explores the ways in which the body's biological equilibrium--its instinctual process of corruption and healing--influences and even defines human nature.


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"An eloquent, thought-provoking dissertation....To read this book is to share [the author's] awe."

The Wisdom of the Body

by Nuland, Sherwin

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Book description: Knopf, 1997. 395pp, index, illustrated. Yale University Clinical Professor of Surgery and author of "How We Die" and "Doctors" describes the life process within our bodies as a universe as a turbulence of chemistry, a chaos of tissue, and volatile cells upon which the stability of life rides on the long road from 'homo' to survival but the special quality that makes us unique is "spirit". . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 9" Tall. Price Intact, Unmarked.

  • Bookseller: abccbooks.com US (US)
  • Bookseller Inventory #: HN9A228
  • Format/binding: Hardcover
  • Book condition: Fine
  • Jacket condition: Fine
  • Edition: First Edition
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • ISBN 10: 0679444076
  • ISBN 13: 9780679444077
  • Publisher: Knopf
  • Date published: 1997
  • Pages: 395
  • Size: 6.75 x 10 x 1.75 inches
  • LCCN: QP38.N894 1997
  • Dewey: 612
  • Weight: 1.7 pounds
  • Keywords: Author of "How We Die"

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