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

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

Atul Gawande with Atul Gawande (Narrator)

304 pages first pub 2014 (view editions)

nonfiction health memoir science sociology emotional informative reflective medium-paced
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Being Mortal is ideal for readers who want an emotionally resonant yet clear-eyed exploration of how society can rethink care, dignity, and meaning when medicine confronts the limits of life itself.

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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 inf...

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