Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End - Brossura

Gawande, Atul

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1250076226 ISBN 13: 9781250076229

Casa editrice: Metropolitan, 2017

Riassunto

A prominent surgeon argues against modern medical practices that extend life at the expense of quality of life while isolating the dying, outlining suggestions for freer, more fulfilling approaches to death that enable more dignified and comfortable choices. By the author of The Checklist Manifesto. Reprint. A #1 New York Times best-seller.

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L'autore:

Atul Gawande is author of three bestselling books: Complications, a finalist for the National Book Award; Better, and The Checklist Manifesto. His latest book is Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End. 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 Executive Director of Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health systems innovation, and chairman of Lifebox, a nonprofit organization making surgery safer globally. He and his wife have three children and live in Newton, Massachusetts.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Metropolitan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1250076226
• ISBN 13: 9781250076229
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 304