Sherwin B. Nuland Audio & Video

In this TED talk American surgeon, author, and Yale professor Sherwin B. Nuland talks about the history of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) for treatment of severe major depression and other mental illnesses.

At once memoir and meditation, this timeless work explores how we die, examinaing the common roads to death, and describing some facets of death's multiplicity.

This week on In Depth our guest is Dr. Sherwin Nuland, Clinical Professor of Surgery at the Yale School of Medicine, and winner of the 1994 National Book Award for "How We Die."

How was medical science able to make this extraordinary journey? What major discoveries made it possible?

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, he steps back to explore the impact of aging on our minds and bodies, strivings, and relationships.

Surgeon and writer Sherwin Nuland meditates on the idea of hope -- the desire to become our better selves and make a better world. It's a thoughtful 12 minutes that will help you focus on the road ahead.

Long-time physician Sherwin B. Nuland presents a provocative and stimulating collection of stories illustrating the vagaries of medical practice over the years.

A discussion with Dr. Sherwin Nuland, clinical professor of surgery at Yale University School of Medicine, Nancy Wexler, president of the Hereditary Disease Foundation…

In Leonardo da Vinci, Sherwin Nuland completes his 20-year quest to understand an unlettered man who was a painter, architect, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and scientist....

He walks with me through every day of my life, in that unsteady, faltering gait that so embarrassed me when I was a boy.