出版社: Vintage
出版年: 1998-6-1
页数: 432
定价: GBP 13.82
装帧: Paperback
ISBN: 9780679781400
内容简介 · · · · · ·
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 mysteri...
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
作者简介 · · · · · ·
舍温·努兰(Sherwin B.Nuland)
作者在耶鲁大学教授外科和医学史,也是《康涅狄格医学》期刊(Connecticut Medicine)的文学编辑和《医学史及相关科学》期刊(Journal of the History of Mecicine and Alied Sciences)的总编。他所著的《麻醉的起源》(The Origins of Anesthesia)被列为医学图书馆的必备经典。
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生与死的艺术只在于努力活着!
不看不知道,人体真奇妙
生命是一个沉淀的过程,我们的点滴日常,积累而成决定了我们今后的道路。我们愿为之付出的,必将给予我们回报。
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很好读的一本,虽然作者已经将科普内容化繁为简使其通俗易懂,但部分医学内容对普罗大众来说还是有些复杂,但这并不影响本书的精彩程度。作者在书中介绍了几个典型又惊险的病例不仅满足读者的好奇心调剂阅读乐趣更引出了关于身体运作的科普,而让人更加印象深刻的是面对病魔病... (展开)> 更多书评 20篇
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1 有用 dotann 2015-11-20 15:09:11
Eye-opening review of the human body for people who are not trained in the field of medicine or biology
1 有用 密码有误 2019-10-06 16:13:51
98年的书,2002年海南出版社翻译了一遍(《生命之脸》),今年中信又翻译了一遍……二十多年了啊…还是看看原版吧
1 有用 密码有误 2019-10-06 16:13:51
98年的书,2002年海南出版社翻译了一遍(《生命之脸》),今年中信又翻译了一遍……二十多年了啊…还是看看原版吧
1 有用 dotann 2015-11-20 15:09:11
Eye-opening review of the human body for people who are not trained in the field of medicine or biology