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Article: Cosmic alumni of Yale's short-lived institute of human relations.(ANCORA IMPARO)
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- The Exceptional Parent
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- October 1, 2008
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As a clinical professor of surgery at the Yale University School of Medicine, Dr. Sherwin Nuland knows a thing or two about the joint.
One of the world's most respected teaching institutions, Yale almost had a shot at being the galaxy's best.
In his new book, The Uncertain Art, Nuland recounts the story of a Yale Medical School Dean, Dr. Milton Winternitz, who in the early 1920s had a vision that pegged him a radical and rogue.
Realizing that medicine was being eclipsed by science over art (and thankfully so in many respects), Winternitz was fearful that the medical school would distance itself from the ...