| Record Number |
736854 |
| ISBN |
9781410478122 (large print : hardcover) |
| 1410478122 (large print : hardcover) |
| Author |
Gawande, Atul author. |
| Title |
Being mortal : medicine and what matters in the end / Atul Gawande. |
| Edition |
Large print edition. |
| Publisher/Date |
Waterville, Maine Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2015. |
| c2014 |
| Pagination etc. |
437 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Thorndike Press large print basic |
| Contents note |
Originally published: New York : Henry Holtt & Company, 2014. |
| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-428) |
| Summary Note |
Modern medicine has transformed the dangers of childbirth? injury? and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the face of our inevitable aging and death? what it can do often runs counter to what it should do. Now Atul Gawande reveals the suffering this has produced. He examines the profession's limitations and failures as life draws to a close? and he shows how the ultimate goal is not a good death? but a good life, until the very end. |
| Subject |
Terminal care |
| Critical care medicine |
| Aging -- Physiological aspects |
| Death -- Attitudes |
| Prognosis |
| Quality of life |
| Large type books |
| Shelf Location |
LP 362.175 GAWA |
