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AFTER CERTAINTY

Person

Sherwin B Nuland

Surgeon-writer on mortality, medical uncertainty, and how professions confront limits of control over life.

Why this matters

Nuland grounds moral seriousness in bodies that fail—correction without illusion about what medicine can promise.

Works

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The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignác Semmelweis

Nuland, Sherwin B. *The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignác Semmelweis*. New York: W. W. Norton, 2003.

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