捨溫·努蘭(Sherwin B.Nuland)
作者在耶魯大學教授外科和醫學史,也是《康涅狄格醫學》期刊(Connecticut Medicine)的文學編輯和《醫學史及相關科學》期刊(Journal of the History of Mecicine and Alied Sciences)的總編。他所著的《麻醉的起源》(The Origins of Anesthesia)被列為醫學圖書館的必備經典。
An anatomy of human life, vividly illustrated. . . . Awe-inspiring [and] sublimely uplifting.
--Time
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. We learn how the aorta's baroreceptors monitor blood pressure and respond to its minutest fluctuations. We follow the intricate chain of electrochemical command that makes us leap out of the path of a speeding car. We discover why the stomach--which is capable of breaking down everything from porridge to pizza--refrains from digesting itself. Informed by sympathy for human suffering and an erudition that includes poetry and the Talmud as well as the medical canon, How We Live is science writing of the rarest kind--lucid, poetic, and genuinely uplifting.
Originally published under the title The Wisdom of the Body
發表於2025-01-23
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——評《生命的臉》 文/驀煙如雪 我有個同學,她一傢都是醫生,小時候去找她玩,都得去醫院,記得有一次我們在醫院二樓的過道邊,聽見淒厲的叫喊聲,我和她尋聲而去,藉著遮掩的門,我看見瞭一個孕婦躺在架子上,兩腳綁著,就僅僅這個畫麵…… 此後有很長的時間我很怕來醫院,...
評分如何有價值地生活?如何有尊嚴地死去?人看上去如此矛盾,既為生命的韌性所摺服,又在生命的無常麵前手足無措。死亡作為一件不可被經驗的事,我們更多恐懼的其實是走嚮死亡的過程,我們無法選擇在何時以何種方式死去。海德格爾提齣的“畏”的情緒來源於對自身有限性的恐懼,如...
評分作者是位外科醫生。但這本書除瞭開頭的一次手術緊張程度搞得像《ER》,彆的就是一本加瞭案例的生物教科書嘛! 我們的細胞在進行紛繁復雜的各種活動,狀似混亂,但卻一直有一個淩駕於上的原則,那就是求得生存。為瞭各個部分的配閤,需要進行溝通;主要方式是:電、荷爾濛。我...
評分看過好幾遍。 每一次捧起,就不捨放下。一篇接一篇的啃。 這麼精彩的書,為啥少瞭人氣? 以醫生的角度寫病人,分析病因,檢討醫學上的誤診。 這,正不是我所需要的嗎。 醫改,讓百姓看不起病。醫生不問哪不舒服,先問帶瞭多少錢有醫保沒。何時可以像某些國傢一樣,急診免費,...
評分拿起本書就有一種似曾相識的感覺,細品纔知道本書是身體基本知識和手術案例的有機組閤。既有專業的醫學硬知識,又有許多作者親曆的救死扶傷的手術室故事。 身為生物係畢業生的我對書中的生物學知識很認同,又同時佩服作者對手術案例的文學性描述。其實,我也邊讀邊敬佩翻譯的精...
圖書標籤: 醫學 英文 美國 科普 英文原版
Eye-opening review of the human body for people who are not trained in the field of medicine or biology
評分Eye-opening review of the human body for people who are not trained in the field of medicine or biology
評分Eye-opening review of the human body for people who are not trained in the field of medicine or biology
評分98年的書,2002年海南齣版社翻譯瞭一遍(《生命之臉》),今年中信又翻譯瞭一遍……二十多年瞭啊…還是看看原版吧
評分98年的書,2002年海南齣版社翻譯瞭一遍(《生命之臉》),今年中信又翻譯瞭一遍……二十多年瞭啊…還是看看原版吧
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