Dr. Sherwin Nuland

Sherwin B. Nuland is Clinical Professor of Surgery at the Yale School of Medicine and Fellow of the university’s Institution for Social and Policy Studies. He serves on the executive committees of Yale’s Whitney Humanities Center and its Interdisciplinary Bioethics Project.

Professor Nuland is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science, New York University, and the Yale School of Medicine, from which he received his M.D. in 1955. After training in surgery at the Yale-New Haven Hospital, he practiced and taught there for three decades. He considers the bedside and operative care of over 10,000 patients to be the most rewarding work of his career. He continues to teach bioethics and medical history to undergraduates and medical students.

Dr. Nuland is the author of eight books, including Doctors: The Biography of Medicine and The Wisdom of the Body. He is also the author of How We Die, a reflection on the modern way of death, which was on the New York Times best-seller list for 34 weeks. This book won the National Book Award and was a finalist for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize and the Book Critics Circle Award. Dr. Nuland has written dozens of articles for magazines and periodicals including The New Yorker, Time, Life, National Geographic, Discover, The New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times.