How We Live

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 0679781404 ISBN13: 9780679781400 Release Date: May 1998 Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Length: 432 Pages Weight: 0.75 lbs. Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.2" x 8.0" Having won the National Book Award for How We Die, his best-selling inquiry into the causes and modes of death, Sherwin Nuland now turns his attention to the miraculous resiliency of human life. For this lucid, wonderful, and wonder-filled new book explores the body's mysterious capacity to marshal disparate organs and processes in the interests of survival. Like its predecessor, How We Live is filled with gripping medical case histories: a woman is pulled back from the brink of death from inexplicable internal bleeding; another patient triumphs over breast cancer; the routine removal of a polyp triggers a nearly lethal medical crisis. For Nuland, each of these cases serves to illustrate the extraordinary responsiveness and adaptability of the human organism