The Nuland Stipend

This is a unique 2-month-long intensive summer program for American and international undergraduate, graduate and professionals from varying disciplines.

Participants attend a series of morning lectures surveying the field of bioethics; attend intensive seminars on special topics such as neuroethics, care for the dying, bioethics and law, philosophy, technology and ethics, public health ethics, and more.

The Center encourages systematic inquiry and analysis in the Yale curriculum and community, as well as in the broader communities of the state, nation, and world. It works across all Yale University departments and professional schools, as well as political, economic, and religious institutions, to generate valid understandings, develop an informed citizenry, and enable thoughtful public and private debate and action.

The Summer Institute is named for Sherwin Nuland. Dr. Nuland received his bachelor’s degree from New York University in 1951 and went on to study medicine at Yale. Dr. Nuland received his medical degree from Yale in 1955. Electing to specialize in surgery, he set his sights on becoming chief surgical resident at Yale-New Haven Hospital. In 1958, Dr. Nuland won the coveted appointment. From 1962 until 1991, he was a clinical professor of surgery at Yale, where he also taught bioethics and medical history. He was a surgeon at Yale-New Haven from 1962 to 1992, when he retired to write full time. Dr. Nuland’s books include “Doctors: The Biography of Medicine” (1988), “The Wisdom of the Body” (1997), “The Doctors’ Plague” (2003) and “The Uncertain Art” (2008). He was a contributing editor to The American Scholar and The New Republic.

“How We Die,” which won the National Book Award for nonfiction in 1994 and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction in 1995, has sold more than 500,000 copies worldwide. Dr. Nuland died in 2013.