Our speaker is Sherwin B. Nuland, MD, a prolific and award-winning author and surgeon emeritus at Yale. His books include How We Die, which won the National Book Award and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and The Mysteries Within: A Surgeon Explores Myth, Medicine and the Human Body, describing the ways in which superstition and religion influenced the development of medical thought. One of the greatest medical writers of our time, Dr. Nuland tackles the hardest topics relating to life, death and the human condition with grace, wisdom and brilliance. For this lecture, Dr. Nuland will draw upon his extensive collection of images dating from the 14th-century in which artists depict physicians, patients, diseases and treatments.