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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

by Atul Gawande
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End - Thryft
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End - Thryft

Confronting the intertwined reality of medicine and mortality.

If you've ever pondered about life's final chapter, "Being Mortal" is a profound read. Atul Gawande blends personal anecdotes with professional insights to navigate a topic often shrouded in discomfort. It's an invitation to reconsider our approach to aging and dying, encouraging a dialogue steeped in dignity and compassion. The book opens a window to a critical aspect of our existence—how we give and receive care when we're most vulnerable. It's not just for healthcare professionals; it's for anyone who aspires to face mortality with grace.

  • Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction Nominee for Longlist (2014)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Nonfiction (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.

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

by Atul Gawande
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ISBN: 9780805095159
Authors: Atul Gawande
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Date of Publication: 2014-10-07
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Biographies & Memoirs, Philosophy, Science
Related Topics: Memoir, Medical, Health, Medicine, Psychology
Goodreads rating: 4.49
(rated by 191904 readers)

Description

In Being Mortal, author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending. Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit. Nursing homes, preoccupied with safety, pin patients into railed beds and wheelchairs. Hospitals isolate the dying, checking for vital signs long after the goals of cure have become moot. Doctors, committed to extending life, continue to carry out devastating procedures that in the end extend suffering. Gawande, a practicing surgeon, addresses his profession's ultimate limitation, arguing that quality of life is the desired goal for patients and families. Gawande offers examples of freer, more socially fulfilling models for assisting the infirm and dependent elderly, and he explores the varieties of hospice care to demonstrate that a person's last weeks or months may be rich and dignified.
 

Confronting the intertwined reality of medicine and mortality.

If you've ever pondered about life's final chapter, "Being Mortal" is a profound read. Atul Gawande blends personal anecdotes with professional insights to navigate a topic often shrouded in discomfort. It's an invitation to reconsider our approach to aging and dying, encouraging a dialogue steeped in dignity and compassion. The book opens a window to a critical aspect of our existence—how we give and receive care when we're most vulnerable. It's not just for healthcare professionals; it's for anyone who aspires to face mortality with grace.

  • Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction Nominee for Longlist (2014)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Nonfiction (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.