# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sherwin-b-nuland
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:00:01.590Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sherwin-b-nuland"
name: "Sherwin B. Nuland"
slug: "sherwin-b-nuland"
description: "Sherwin Bernard Nuland was an American surgeon and writer who taught bioethics, history of medicine, and medicine at the Yale School of Medicine, and occasionally bioethics and history of medicine at Yale College. His 1994 book How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter was a \nNew York Times Best Seller and won the National Book Award for Nonfiction, as well as being a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize."
tagline: "American surgeon (1930–2014)"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1930-12-08"
deathDate: "2014-03-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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ranks:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump