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Sherwin Nuland — The Biology of the Spirit

Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:51:00
Publish Date: 2014-03-06 11:00:00
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Sherwin Nuland — The Biology of the Spirit

Dr. Sherwin Nuland died this week at the age of 83. He became well-known for his first book, “How We Die,” which won the National Book Award. For him, pondering death was a way of wondering at life — and the infinite variety of processes that maintain human life moment to moment. He reflects on the meaning of life by way of scrupulous and elegant detail about human physiology.

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