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" How we live / "
Sherwin B. Nuland.
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BL
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879731
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Nuland, Sherwin B.
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How we live /\ Sherwin B. Nuland.
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1st Vintage books ed.
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New York :: Vintage Books,, [1998]
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xxix, 395 pages :: illustrations, portrait ;; 21 cm
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0679781404
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: 9780679781400
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Includes index.
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Originally published as: The wisdom of the body.
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| Contents
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The will to live -- The constant sea within maintains the constancy within -- Of numphs, lymph, and courage in the face of cancer -- Sympathy and the nervous system -- The fundamental unit of life : the cell -- Biology, destiny, and free will -- The act of love -- A child is born -- The heart of the matter -- The blood is the life -- A voyage through the gut -- Mining the mind : the brain and human nature.
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Filled with gripping medical histories that explore the body's mysterious capacity to marshal disparate organs and processes in the interests of survival to highlight the miraculous resiliency of human life.
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Human biology, Popular works.
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Human body, Popular works.
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Human physiology, Popular works.
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Biology.
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Human Body.
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Human biology.
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Human body.
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Human physiology.
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| Dewey Classification
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612$dc21
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QP38.N894 1997
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QTN894 1997
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Nuland, Sherwin B.
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