Dr. Sherwin Nuland to Deliver Sept. 9 Bryan Series Lecture, "The Artist Looks at the Doctor"
Dr. Sherwin Nuland, a clinical professor of surgery at Yale School of Medicine and best-selling author, will give a public lecture entitled, "The Artist Looks at the Doctor: 500 Years of Observation", Sept. 9 at 8 p.m. in Dana Auditorium.
The lecture is free and open to the public. Nuland is the first Bryan Series lecturer on the fall theme of Arts and the Human Experience. Other lecturers will be playwright Edward Albee Oct. 1-2, filmmaker Ken Burns Nov. 6 and legendary actor Sidney Poitier Dec. 2. Guilford is also celebrating The Year of the Arts in 2003-04.
A faculty member at Yale School of Medicine since 1962, Nuland will base his Sept. 9 talk on his 1995 book, Doctors: A Biography of Medicine. He will include a presentation of his own collection of slides featuring works of art depicting the history of medicine.
Nuland is probably best known for his 1994 book, How We Die, which won the coveted National Book Award and was on the New York Times bestseller list for 34 weeks. It sold more than a half million copies worldwide and was translated into 17 languages.
His latest book, Lost in America: A Journey with My Father, was published in January, and his upcoming book, The Doctor's Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis, is scheduled for publication in September.
Nuland's wife, Sarah Peterson Nuland, is an artistic associate at Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Conn., and a 1970 graduate of Guilford. They will make a joint presentation to opening academic convocation for students, faculty and staff Sept. 10.
For more information about the Bryan Series, call 316-2308 or visit www.guilford.edu/bryanseries. For more information about The Year of the Arts, visit www.guilford.edu/yeararts.
Sept. 9, 2003