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from the issue of March 8, 2007
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Thompson finale to focus on medicine
BY SARA PIPHER, UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS
Sherwin B. Nuland, clinical professor of surgery at Yale School of Medicine and fellow of Yale's Institution for Social and Policy Studies, will give this year's final E.N. Thompson Forum lecture at UNL. He will speak at 7 p.m. March 22 at the Lied Center for Performing Arts on "Faith, Philosophy and Medicine: Reflections on Maimonides." The event is free and open to the public.
In his research and scholarship, Nuland shapes his vision of the theory and practice of medicine and its future.
He is the author of nine books including the Pulitzer Prize finalist and National Book Award-winning, "How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter," which was on The New York Times best seller list for 34 weeks.
Nuland's most recent book, "Maimonides," is a portrait of the 14th-century Jewish doctor, rabbi and philosopher Moses Maimonides. Maimonides wrote "The Guide for the Perplexed," which attempted to reconcile scientific knowledge with faith in God.
Nuland is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science, New York University, and the Yale School of Medicine.
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 more than 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.
He 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. He serves on the executive committees of Yale's Whitney Humanities Center and its Interdisciplinary Bioethics Project.
Additional activities include a pre-talk at the Lied Center at 6:30 p.m., hosted by Katherine Starace, a medical social worker.
Following Nuland's lecture, he will sign books in the Lied Center lobby.
Norm Bond, a Certified Life Underwriter, will facilitate a follow-up discussion 7 p.m. March 25 at Saint Paul United Methodist Church, 1144 M St.
The Thompson Forum is a cooperative project of the Cooper Foundation, the Lied Center and UNL.
For more information, go online to www.unl.edu/ucomm/enthompson.
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