Atul Gawande: Being Mortal | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9781250076229 | Being Mortal | Medicine and What Matters in the End | Atul Gawande

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Beschreibung

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

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.

Über den Autor

Atul Gawande is the author of several bestselling books: Complications, a finalist for the National Book Award; Better; The Checklist Manifesto, and Being Mortal. He is also a surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, a staff writer for The New Yorker, and a professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health. He has won the Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science, a MacArthur Fellowship, and two National Magazine Awards. In his work in public health, he is Founder and Chair of Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health systems innovation, and Lifebox, a nonprofit organization making surgery safer globally. He is also chair of Haven, where he was CEO from 2018-2020. He and his wife have three children and live in Newton, Massachusetts.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1
1 ¿ The Independent Self 11
2 ¿ Things Fall Apart 25
3 ¿ Dependence 55
4 ¿ Assistance 79
5 ¿ A Better Life 111
6 ¿ Letting Go 149
7 ¿ Hard Conversations 191
8 ¿ Courage 231
Epilogue 259

Notes on Sources 265
Acknowledgments 279

Erscheinungsjahr:	2017
Fachbereich:	Allgemeine Lexika
Genre:	Importe , Medizin
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Übersetzungstitel:	Sterblich sein
Inhalt:	282 S.
ISBN-13:	9781250076229
ISBN-10:	1250076226
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Gawande, Atul
Hersteller:	Macmillan USA Picador
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestraße 122 a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Abbildungen:	Includes 3 black-and-white photographs throughout
Maße:	208 x 142 x 25 mm
Von/Mit:	Atul Gawande
Erscheinungsdatum:	05.09.2017
Gewicht:	0,274 kg

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