Sherwin B. Nuland, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Sherwin B. Nuland

American surgeon

Date of Birth: 08-Dec-1930

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States

Date of Death: 03-Mar-2014

Profession: writer, surgeon, non-fiction writer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

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, MIT Technology Review and the New York Review of Books.
He was a fellow of the Hastings Center, an independent bioethics research institution.