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Being Mortal

by Atul Gawande
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Being Mortal
Being Mortal

A compassionate exploration of aging, death, and medicine.

This book would be a good read for anyone who wants to deeply reflect on the realities of aging and mortality. Atul Gawande, a practicing surgeon, fearlessly exposes the limitations and failures of the medical profession when it comes to end-of-life care. Through eye-opening research and gripping personal stories, he explores the need for a shift in our approach to aging and death, emphasizing the importance of living a good life until the very end. This book offers a compassionate perspective on a topic that is often avoided, making it essential for anyone who wants to have a better understanding of the complexities of mortality.

  • 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)
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by Atul Gawande
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ISBN: 9781250076229
Authors: Atul Gawande
Publisher: Picador
Date of Publication: 2017-09-05
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Science, Sociology, Philosophy
Related Topics: Health, Medicine, Psychology, Medical
Goodreads rating: 4.49
(rated by 209893 readers)

Description

Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming the dangers of childbirth, injury, and disease from harrowing to manageable. But when it comes to the inescapable realities of aging and death, what medicine can do often runs counter to what it should. Through eye-opening research and gripping stories of his own patients and family, Gawande reveals the suffering this dynamic has produced. Nursing homes, devoted above all to safety, battle with residents over the food they are allowed to eat and the choices they are allowed to make. Doctors, uncomfortable discussing patients' anxieties about death, fall back on false hopes and treatments that are actually shortening lives instead of improving them. In his bestselling books, Atul Gawande, a practicing surgeon, has fearlessly revealed the struggles of his profession. Here he examines its ultimate limitations and failures―in his own practices as well as others'―as life draws to a close. Riveting, honest, and humane, Being Mortal shows how the ultimate goal is not a good death but a good life―all the way to the very end. Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, The New York Times Book Review, NPR, and Chicago Tribune, now in paperback with a new reading group guide.
 

A compassionate exploration of aging, death, and medicine.

This book would be a good read for anyone who wants to deeply reflect on the realities of aging and mortality. Atul Gawande, a practicing surgeon, fearlessly exposes the limitations and failures of the medical profession when it comes to end-of-life care. Through eye-opening research and gripping personal stories, he explores the need for a shift in our approach to aging and death, emphasizing the importance of living a good life until the very end. This book offers a compassionate perspective on a topic that is often avoided, making it essential for anyone who wants to have a better understanding of the complexities of mortality.

  • 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.