Being mortal

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#1 New York Times Bestseller

In Being Mortal, bestselling 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.

Full of eye-opening research and riveting storytelling, Being Mortal asserts that medicine can comfort and enhance our experience even to the end, providing not only a good life but also a good end.

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Being Mortal

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From the international bestselling author of better complications and the checklist manifesto and reith lecturer 2014 a revolutionary and emotionally searing account of death dying and medicine as heard on bbc radio 4 a good read the international bestseller gawande s most powerful and movin Op voorraad. Voor 23:59 besteld, morgen in huis .. MEER INFO

Being Mortal

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A prominent surgeon argues against modern medical practices that extend life at the expense of quality of life while isolating the dying outlining suggestions for freer more fulfilling approaches to death that enable more dignified and comfortable choices by the author of the checklist manifesto Uiterlijk 22 januari in huis .. MEER INFO

Being Mortal

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Longlisted for the samuel johnson prize 2014 in being mortal gawande examines his experiences as a surgeon as he confronts the realities of aging and dying in his patients and in his family as well as the limits of what he can do and he emerges with story that crosses the globe and history expl Direct beschikbaar .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: Hardcover

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 07 oktober 2014

Aantal pagina's: 304

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Atul Gawande

Hoofduitgeverij: Metropolitan Books

Editie: 1

Extra groot lettertype: Nee

Product breedte: 150 mm

Product hoogte: 27 mm

Product lengte: 216 mm

Studieboek: Nee

Verpakking breedte: 144 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 28 mm

Verpakking lengte: 215 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 721 g

EAN: 9780805095159

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