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Descrizione libro Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Codice articolo GOR006140766
Descrizione libro Paperback. Condizione: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine. Codice articolo GOR006628461
Descrizione libro Condizione: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. Codice articolo wbs3800312489
Descrizione libro Condizione: VeryGood. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. Codice articolo wbs4182655641
Descrizione libro Condizione: Very Good. 1713441453. 4/18/2024 11:57:33 AM. Codice articolo U9781846685811
Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.1. Codice articolo G1846685818I3N00
Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Bumped Edges. Sun Damage to edge of Pages. No.1 BESTSELLERS - great prices, friendly customer service â " all orders are dispatched next working day. Codice articolo mon0000873063
Descrizione libro Condizione: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,550grams, ISBN:9781846685811. Codice articolo 8672119
Descrizione libro Black Cloth Boards. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st GB Edition. Account of the modern exoerience of mortality and the limits of medicine. 282pp. Gilt lettering to spine, dark blue endpapers. Slight forward lean to spine and minor bumping to spine and corners, otherwise very good copy with no inscriptions. Unclipped DJ has slight edge and surface wear, otherwise very good. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book. Codice articolo 014569
Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. Full of eye-opening research and riveting storytelling, BEING MORTAL lasserts that medicine can comfort and enhance our experience even to the end, providing not only a good life but also a good end. An Amazon Best Book of the Month, October 2014: True or false: Modern medicine is a miracle that has transformed all of our lives. If you said ?true,? you?d be right, of course, but that?s a statement that demands an asterisk, a ?but.? ?We?ve been wrong about what our job is in medicine,? writes Atul Gawande, a surgeon (at Brigham and Women?s Hospital in Boston) and a writer (at the New Yorker). ?We think. . .[it] is to ensure health and survival. But really. . .it is to enable well-being. And well-being is about the reasons one wishes to be alive.? Through interviews with doctors, stories from and about health care providers (such as the woman who pioneered the notion of ?assisted living? for the elderly)?and eventually, by way of the story of his own father?s dying, Gawande examines the cracks in the system of health care to the aged (i.e. 97 percent of medical students take no course in geriatrics) and to the seriously ill who might have different needs and expectations than the ones family members predict. (One striking example: the terminally ill former professor who told his daughter that ?quality of life? for him meant the ongoing ability to enjoy chocolate ice cream and watch football on TV. If medical treatments might remove those pleasures, well, then, he wasn?t sure he would submit to such treatments.) Doctors don?t listen, Gawande suggests?or, more accurately, they don?t know what to listen for. (Gawande includes examples of his own failings in this area.) Besides, they?ve been trained to want to find cures, attack problems?to win. But victory doesn?t look the same to everyone, he asserts. Yes, ?death is the enemy,? he writes. ?But the enemy has superior forces. Eventually, it wins. And in a war that you cannot win, you don?t want a general who fights to the point of total annihilation. You don?t want Custer. You want Robert E. Lee. Fine, first edition, first printing, in fine. mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} NF94. Codice articolo 024846