Being Mortal
Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming the dangers of childbirth, injury, and disease from harrowing to manageable. Through eye-opening research and gripping stories of his own patients and family, Gawande reveals the suffering this dynamic has produced. But when it… Celý popis ↓
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Being Mortal
Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming the dangers of childbirth, injury, and disease from harrowing to manageable. Through eye-opening research and gripping stories of his own patients and family, Gawande reveals the suffering this dynamic has produced. But when it comes to the inescapable realities of aging and death, what medicine can do often runs counter to what it should.
Doctors, uncomfortable discussing patients' anxieties about death, fall back on false hopes and treatments that are actually shortening lives instead of improving them. 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. And families go along with all of it.
In his bestselling books, Atul Gawande, a practicing surgeon, has fearlessly revealed the struggles of his profession. Now 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.
Parametre
- Výrobca
- Picador
- Autor
- Atul Gawande
- Jazyk
- anglické
- ISBN
- 1250076226
- Počet strán
- 304
- Väzba
- Brožovaná bez prebalu matná
- Rok vydania
- 2015
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