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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

Navigating mortality with medicine, ethics, and compassion.

If you've ever pondered the intersection of healthcare and the human experience of aging and dying, "Being Mortal" by Atul Gawande is a profound choice. Gawande, a surgeon and writer, tackles the delicate balance between prolonging life and enhancing the quality of life. His insights are especially relevant in today's world, where medical technology often outpaces ethical considerations. By reading this, you'll likely gain a deeper understanding of life's final stages, and what it truly means to live well until the end.

  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2014)
  • The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction Nominee for Longlist (2014)
  • Royal Society of Biology General Book Prize (2015)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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ISBN: 9781846685828
Authors: Atul Gawande
Publisher: Profile Books
Date of Publication: 2015-07-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Philosophy, Personal Development, Science
Related Topics: Health, Medical, Mental Health, Biology, Medicine, Psychology
Goodreads rating: 4.49
(rated by 215764 readers)

Description

Never before has aging been such an important topic. For even as medical advances push the boundaries of survival further each year, we have become profoundly detached from the reality of being mortal. Here, Atul Gawande outlines a story that crosses the globe as he explores the modern experience of mortality—what it's like to get old and die, how medicine has changed this and how it hasn't, where our ideas about death have gone wrong. The systems that we have put in place to manage our mortality are manifestly failing; but, as Gawande reveals, it doesn't have to be this way. The ultimate goal, after all, is not a good death, but a good life—all the way to the very end.
 

Navigating mortality with medicine, ethics, and compassion.

If you've ever pondered the intersection of healthcare and the human experience of aging and dying, "Being Mortal" by Atul Gawande is a profound choice. Gawande, a surgeon and writer, tackles the delicate balance between prolonging life and enhancing the quality of life. His insights are especially relevant in today's world, where medical technology often outpaces ethical considerations. By reading this, you'll likely gain a deeper understanding of life's final stages, and what it truly means to live well until the end.

  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2014)
  • The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction Nominee for Longlist (2014)
  • Royal Society of Biology General Book Prize (2015)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.