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Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End
Atul Gawande
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Description for Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End
Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: MBN; PDZ; VFD; VFJX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 250.
AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 'A GOOD READ' THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'GAWANDE'S MOST POWERFUL, AND MOVING, BOOK' MALCOLM GLADWELL 'BEING MORTAL IS NOT ONLY WISE AND DEEPLY MOVING; IT IS AN ESSENTIAL AND INSIGHTFUL BOOK FOR OUR TIMES' OLIVER SACKS For most of human history, death was a common, ever-present possibility. It didn't matter whether you were five or fifty - every day was a roll of the dice. But now, as medical advances push the boundaries of survival further each year, we have become increasingly detached from the reality of being ... Read more
AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 'A GOOD READ' THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'GAWANDE'S MOST POWERFUL, AND MOVING, BOOK' MALCOLM GLADWELL 'BEING MORTAL IS NOT ONLY WISE AND DEEPLY MOVING; IT IS AN ESSENTIAL AND INSIGHTFUL BOOK FOR OUR TIMES' OLIVER SACKS For most of human history, death was a common, ever-present possibility. It didn't matter whether you were five or fifty - every day was a roll of the dice. But now, as medical advances push the boundaries of survival further each year, we have become increasingly detached from the reality of being ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Profile Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Wellcome
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846685828
SKU
V9781846685828
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99-50
About Atul Gawande
Atul Gawande is a surgeon, writer and public health researcher. He practices general and endocrine surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. He is also Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health. He writes regularly for the New Yorker, and is the ... Read more
Reviews for Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End
An impassioned, broad-ranging and deeply personal exploration
Guardian
Medicine, Being Mortal reminds us, has prepared itself for life but not for death. This is Atul Gawande's most powerful, and moving, book
Malcolm Gladwell Dr Gawande writes very well, his book Is deeply humane and I learnt much from it
Theodor Dalrymple
Times
In ... Read more
Guardian
Medicine, Being Mortal reminds us, has prepared itself for life but not for death. This is Atul Gawande's most powerful, and moving, book
Malcolm Gladwell Dr Gawande writes very well, his book Is deeply humane and I learnt much from it
Theodor Dalrymple
Times
In ... Read more