The Art of Aging, Sherwin B. Nuland
The Art of Aging, Sherwin B. Nuland
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The Art of Aging
A Doctor's Prescription for Well-Being

Author: Sherwin B. Nuland

Narrator: Arthur Morey

Unabridged: 9 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/06/2007

Synopsis

In his landmark book How We Die, Sherwin B. Nuland profoundly altered our perception of the end of life. Now, in THE ART OF AGING, Dr. Nuland steps back to explore the impact of aging on our minds and bodies, strivings and relationships. Melding a scientist’s passion for truth with a humanist’s understanding of the heart and soul, Nuland has created a wise, frank, and inspiring audiobook about the ultimate stage of life’s journey.
Growing old, Nuland teaches us, is not a disease but an art–and for those who practice it well, it can bring extraordinary rewards. “I’m taking the journey even while I describe it,” writes Nuland. Drawing on his own life and work, as well as the lives of friends both famous and not, Nuland portrays the astonishing variability of the aging experience. Faith and inner strength, the deepening of personal relationships, the realization that career does not define identity, the acceptance that some goals will remain unaccomplished–these are among the secrets of those who age well.
Reflecting the wisdom of a long lifetime, THE ART OF AGING is a work of luminous insight, unflinching candor, and profound compassion.

About The Author

Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D., is the author of nine previous books, including Doctors: The Biography of Medicine, The Wisdom of the Body, The Mysteries Within, Lost in America: A Journey with My Father, and The Doctors’ Plague. His book How We Die: Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter won the National Book Award and spent thirty-four weeks on the New York Times best-seller list. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, The New York Times, Time, and The New York Review of Books. Nuland was a clinical professor of surgery at Yale University, where he also teaches bioethics and medical history. He lived with his family in Connecticut. He died in 2014.Arthur Morey has acted in a number of productions, both Off-Broadway in New York and Off-Loop in Chicago. He’s won several Earphones Awards and has been repeatedly listed by AudioFile Magazine as a Best Voice over the years.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Judy on September 14, 2009

I originally picked this book up hoping it would help me get over my dismay at the appalling number of wrinkles beginning to populate my neck and face. While Sherwin Nuland, surgeon and Yale professor, seems sympathetic to the physical perils of aging, he teaches us that "growing old is not a diseas......more

Goodreads review by Larry on February 12, 2014

Seems like I read this book almost four years ago, didn't write a review and gave it a "meh" three stars. Now I read it again looking for a counterpoint to Nuland's earlier (and I thought pessimistic) How We Die. But it turns out I like the book even less! So let me just copy and paste my current......more

Goodreads review by John on March 08, 2018

Nuland’s How We Die was an incisive and graphic book. I loved it, and looked forward to The Art of Aging—but what a deception. A better title for this book would be The Art of Pontificating. Nuland’s mantras are You must, You should, You have to, You’d better. It’s life-coaching at its worst, lumber......more

Goodreads review by Gary on February 15, 2023

Quite a few years ago I was captured by Sherwin Nuland’s award-winning book, How We Die. Reading it was an eye-opening experience for me. It was fearless and brought to the fore things we in contemporary America do not talk about in company. The Art of Aging is in a way a kind of companion volume, b......more

Goodreads review by Douglass on June 07, 2023

The Art of Aging was published by Sherwin Nuland, ~12 years after his award-winning book, How We Die. It marks the author’s literary transition from facing death squarely, to trying to deal with old age up to death. Nuland gives us numerous positive ideas about his view of the aging process: • Knowin......more

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