by Sherwin B. Nuland · Alianza · tapa dura · ISBN 9788420694191
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«Cómo morimos» is Sherwin B. Nuland's essay on death, published by Alianza in hardback (260 pages, in Spanish).
Nuland, surgeon and professor at Yale University, explains the biological mechanisms of the main terminal diseases —cancer, AIDS, heart conditions, Alzheimer's— and of old age. His aim is to debunk myths: knowing that clinical and psychological reality helps face death without deception or fear.
Translation from English by Camilo Tomé of the original How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter (1994). The original was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the National Book Award for nonfiction.
For readers interested in medical popularization, philosophy, and reflection on death, and in scientific approaches to the end of life.
Sherwin Bernard Nuland 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.
